Thank You Bluehost

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Jim Duncan

This morning I deleted my blog. In attempting to clean up the back end, I deleted an FTP account (and all the files) of someone who did some back-end work for me. Apparently, all of my blog’s files were in that directory. I lost a few comments and emails are coming back through from Monday, but that’s ok. Three years and nine months of blogging – deleted in one click. I. Am. A Moron.

D’oh.

Thankfully, Bluehost had a backup (more recent than mine, but at least I had one, thanks to this plugin).

Lessons learned -

1) Work with a host who backs up frequently

2) Work with a host who knows how to restore a backu

3) Backup youself.

4) When deleting FTP accounts, don’t. (at least I won’t) – Just change the password.

5) Backup.

Thank you Bluehost

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About Jim Duncan

A Charlottesville Realtor who tries to stay on the bleeding/cutting/functional edge of technology and real estate trends. I have been selling real estate for the past 10 years, lived in C'Ville for twenty+ and am married to one of few Charlottesville natives left.
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  • http://www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com Jay Thompson

    I bet that was a moment of shear panic followed by much cursing. Kudos to Bluehost. Glad you are back!

  • http://focusonfrederick.com Bob Carney

    Whew…Glad to know Customer service pulled through!!! I have two more years on my account. I do back up weekly using the WP DB backup plug in. And have it emailed to a ghost email every week so I can go back if revive it and only loose a week at most.

    Let your blood pressure return to normal.

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