On Again, Off Again
Aug 18th 2008Rural WriterLife in General
If you’ve tried to read my blog the last couple of days, it’s hard to tell what you found when you got to the site. It’s been on again, off again the last two days.
It all started with me being tired of seeing the notice that a new version of Wordpress was available, please update now. This being hosted on Go Daddy, they do updates through “The Hosting Connection.”
Only once it was updated, I couldn’t log-in.
Then it got to the point it wouldn’t connect with the database at all, and error pages were popping up instead of the front page of the site.
It took two days of frustrating, pulling my hair out, searching all over forums and asking questions of tech support before it finally got fixed. But it wasn’t anything that I did that fixed it. Or anything I found on the forums. Or anything Go Daddy’s tech support told me. They were pretty much useless.
Nope, all I can say is thank goodness for Cave Geeks. There’s something to be said for raising up your own tech support.
Youngest Son got the database, user name and passwords all connecting to each other again, and transferred a back-up of the posts to the blog. I still need to tweak some stuff to get everything back in order, but at least Rural Ramblings is up and running again.
Let’s hope it stays that way.
2 Comments »
Jennyon 19 Aug 2008 at 5:35 am 1Hey there, I am a new follower to your site, and yeah, all weekend it was a white screen of death. Good to know you got helpers in the wings!!!
Rural Writeron 19 Aug 2008 at 9:36 am 2Thanks for reading! Yes, it is nice to have back-up when the tech gets too tech!