After many weeks of impatient frustration, I finally have my blog up and running. I have more work to do yet, such as re-establish my plugins (SEO and maintenance-related) and other matters. The problem was a hardware failure that brought down a RAID system, and the provider, my brother, was on an anniversary vacation when Murphy’s hammer hit. The good news is that we’ve moved our host “into the cloud” with backup systems now in place. Yes, of course I should have had backup systems to begin with; however, factoring in the revenue this blog generates ($0 as of today) this is an admittedly low priority.
Retrieving my old data wasn’t that bad. Migrating it to our new host was a bear. I was able to easily rebuild my wordpress blog on my ubuntu laptop, so it seemed that doing likewise for another host would be cake-walk. Not at all. Mydomain, our new host, has a rather stringent policy on permissions, such as not supporting the sql statement for dropping databases and tables. I can’t fault them on it, actually, that should work to my benefit in the big picture, but such unplanned discovery is bittersweet.
