Here I am with a brand spankin' new site. Why, you may ask? Well... its a painful story of how a stupid person picked the wrong hosting company and basically lost everything to a hard drive crash. My provider was doing a "routine" upgrade of hardware when there was a problem... then my web site went "black" (off-line, down, buh-bye) for 5 days without a single response to several frantic support tickets. Then on the 5th day, the bad news. Really bad news. They lost a hard drive. A score of customers were affected in some way. A handful lost everything. And, oops, sorry, we don't have any backups. Yes, I was one of those unlucky few to loose it all. Poof, digital oblivion.
So here I am. New provider (that does regular backups!), new blogging software. Let's hope that this time I stay around for a while... =)
Posted by xeeban at April 1, 2004 10:30 PM