• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Women's Legacy Project
  • Home
  • About
  • How To Curate
  • Our Collective Legacy
  • Writing Online Memoir
  • Blog
Women's Legacy Project > Blog > CREATE > Blogging & Writing > Some Days Are, Well, Rather Sucky

Some Days Are, Well, Rather Sucky

Written by: womenslegacy
Published: February 21, 2012 -- Last Modified: February 21, 2012
1 Comment

Not that I’m complaining.  I still have a wonderful life.  Wonderful family.  Wonderful friends.  And a former hosting company that sucks big time.  Today did not go as planned. 

Did you ever wake up and find your self-hosted sites all disappeared along with the hosting company you have used for years?

Let me tell you, it sucks.  Big time! 

But, for me, recovery comes easier than it once did.  When things go wrong you realize what you have learned since the last time you were tested.  Yes, even finding out you will have to reload all your sites from not really up to date back-ups onto a new hosting company’s servers after you find that company, set up accounts, and initiate name server transfers. 

At one time all this would have left me in a dark, absolutely no fun, pillows over my head in a dark room, funk for several days, at least, while I tried to figure out what all the steps to starting over with a new hosting company would be.  Then actually doing the steps would have taken another couple of days, or weeks.  So a few hours of work and a beer and a Cobb salad later, things are as under control as they could possibly be, and I’m just waiting for the DNS migration to happen. 

So really things are good even though the day was, well, challenging to sucky.  I now have even more shareable information about what every person who has a self-hosted website needs to know. 

I’m Done Nesting

Categories: Blogging & WritingTags: Blogging & Writing

Support Independent Bookstores - Visit IndieBound.org
Previous Post: « Erma Bombeck Warned Us
Next Post: Pinterest, Literacy and Marketing »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. awritersquery

    February 23, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    Nothing fries my brain like "tech" disasters. I admire your unflappability in the face of potential web tragedy. I hope I never need this information you've so painfully learned!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badgeShow more posts

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Footer

Recent Posts

  • Ending, and Beginning
  • For Our Daughters
  • Stand and Write
  • Context and Little Things
  • A Month is Just a Month… as Time Goes By
  • Processing Two Very Different Deaths
  • A Dehydrated and Delusional Friend Found Wandering in 100° Heat
  • About Women’s Legacy & Hill Research
  • Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Archives

Powered by
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
View my Flipboard Magazine.

© 2023, Nancy Hill, Women's Legacy Project of Hill Research Services, LLC

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Reject Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT