October 25th, 2007
Sorry for the Troubles…
My webhosting service made an unannounced 24-hour “system maintenance” yesterday.
When they came back online, all of EncoreSeraphine’s comics were gone, deleted.
I called them, and some half-intelligible guy named Bryce told me “We didn’t do it”
which is silly because they did. Then he chastised me for not “backing up” which is
very strange because I thought that was something my hosting provider would do
automatically. *Logic and computers never have an easy alliance.*
I now have to repair the damage BlueHost did.
Meanwhile, does anyone have a recommendation for a hosting service that does
everything right? BlueHost sucks. I hope to be back up tomorrow with a new comic.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:40 am
*stares in disbelief
They erased all?
They haven’t back-uped?
Gallows are too good for some people.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Oh i don’t really know about a good hosting service, wish i could help. I have tryed to check your blog yesterday but it wasn’t working and now this other problem. Hope it comes back to normal soon! kiss.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
ouch this sucks…
I can only send you mu hugs Sera… I know how you feel…
October 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I don’t know anything about hosting services, sorry. But I wish you good luck with that, That must be terrible!
October 25th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Thats absolutely awful of them! I use googles Picassa to store my pictures and Blogger for my blog. At least with dedicated storage the pictures should be safe.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Oh no..
Do you have the comics anywhere? This is an international crisis and I’ll join you in a class action lawsuit if you launch.
Seriously, your work is really special and it will be a real loss if the panels can’t be recovered.
I use blogspot, which is not too sophisticated, but hasn’t lost anything yet. I do keep a copy of my template somewhere just in case. But mine could go and it would be smoke in the wind - yours are jewels.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
I also use googles Picassa to store my pictures and Blogger for my blog. I also use Frewebs.
See
http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g
I suggest you change over to avoid any repeats-it will only take few minutes to set up.
Best wishes .
October 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Whilst it will take only a few minutes to set up, establishing all of your links to be incorporated into your template may involve some work initially. Best wishes
October 25th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
i feel very sorry abot dis Sera. my hugs buddy… i agree with Romeika…. i 2 cant able to c ur post yesterday…. iam sure very soon u will hav a nice solution 4 dis…..
October 25th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
It’s all fixed and back up.
Ther’e a new comic tomorrow.
Hugs for your words and thoughts.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
By the way, Kalai, you made the 1,000th post to Encore Seraphine.
Hugs.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
and please… do you r own back-ups. There is an option in WP to send you packed backup as an e-mail. It doesn’t hurt and istn’t trouble at all to do that every week or two.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:29 am
*woooooooooooooooooooooooooot*
:) 
p.s.
I agree with dK, you’re work is too much good to be lost!
October 26th, 2007 at 2:22 am
hmmm… now I am not sure… I thought it is in basic installation, but my credits page says there is a plugin for back-up: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/
October 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
feeling very happy friend…. iam sure dat u will have more more post celebration in the future….. hugs…