Site Back Up And Running

December 29th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

Wow, that was really painful. The site now appears to be back up and running. I think the problems were caused by a catologue of errors by both me and my host, PowerVPS, which resulted in 3-4 minor outages on Tuesday and a 36 hour outage until now. What I’m really disappointed with, was that my site traffic was running really high on Tues, so I’ve lost a lot of potential new readers.

In the end I gave up on my wordpress installation, backed up my files and database, wiped everything clean, installed a fresh copy of wordpress and then restored files I think I still needed one by one.

Everything seems to be ok and I don’t appear to have lost any posts or comments, but please let me know if you spot anything odd.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Enblogopedia on 29 December 2006:

    Welcome back man!!
    hope to find a good host plan!

  2. #2

    Comment by Martin on 29 December 2006:

    I know that this situation really sucks. I experienced a similar one when I had to change from webhost to dedicated server. It is really stressful, hope everything is sorted out now.

  3. #3

    Comment by Quick Online Tips on 30 December 2006:

    Welcome back. It would be nice to read a detailed article about how you backed up all of wordpress.

  4. #4

    Comment by Angsuman Chakraborty on 30 December 2006:

    Your site isn’t allowing commenting!

  5. #5

    Comment by Everton Blair on 30 December 2006:

    you sure? ;-)

    I’m having intermittent database problems, which probably was causing the problems

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