Everything Went Down–What a Day!
Mar 2nd, 2007 by Kirk M
Bluehost, the people that host my wife’s website and my blog had a server corrupt on them and that particular server just happened to have been the one that our websites were on so everything went away including her business email and both of our personal email accounts as well . Okay, so it happens occasionally especially these days when every punk and slimeball that has a computer are foaming at the mouth with the desire to take down every computer and server they can find simply to prove that they can do it. I have a few other choice words for these kind of people but I’ll refrain from expressing myself further. I like to keep the blog mostly clean ya’ know.
These things do happen like I said and it’s not the fact that it happens, every host goes through this once in awhile no matter who it is. What’s really important here is how fast they get it fixed and since it appears they had to rebuild the server from scratch and then re-load all the data from back-up, the folks running the servers at Bluehost did a fine job all around.
This plus the fact they were happy to tell me what was going on when I called them about how long it might be before things were restored instead of giving me the run around.
But wait…that’s not all.
My computer started to act up too and wouldn’t load my desktop when I re-started it. Just the background and nothing else. Oh, just dandy! Well, I fixed that quickly enough (only an hour or so) and put things back the way they were and low and behold, Bluehost had things up and running again so there was my honey’s website and my blog all safe, sound and complete.
But wait…there’s still more! Upon logging into my blog’s Admin, I saw an announcement on the dashboard that the latest version of WordPress (version 2.1.1) had been classified as Dangerous and the download and the server it was stored on had been taken down and everyone who recently upgraded to this version (like me for instance) now had to upgrade once again to WP 2.1.2:
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Normally I wouldn’t have minded this at all but after a day dealing with the lost websites, a busted computer and feeling generally miserable health-wise, one might imagine that upgrading my Wordpress install was not on my list of things to do today. However, due to those aforementioned morons that I referred to in the first paragraph, I had no choice and 40 minutes later—all is well again.
I hope.
Now let’s try another re-start…
tsk tsk wordpress. i am thinking of closing down
You thinking of giving up Becky? Are there any specific reasons or just Wordpress?
Just wondering (or is that just thinking?)