Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a great new years and have great plans for the upcoming year. I have several new years resolutions that I will share with you all shortly.
I am really excited for upcoming the upcoming Christmas vacation. I want to take this opportunity to wish a very merry Christmas to all.
Yesterday Yahoo started laying off most of the fifteen hundred employees that they had claimed earlier would be loosing their jobs. Yahoo also changed their severance policy from two years to one year. Many recruiters were waiting outside of the door for Yahoo employees with job interviews shortly following. Some will be out of luck however.
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Anyone Know How to Set Firefox to Check for New Versions of Page Every Visit to The Page? You can do this easily in Internet Explorer. I am not sure why Firefox does not allow this. If Google Chrome ever builds this feature into its browser I am switching from Firefox forever.
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Business has been picking up a little lately. People seem more confident in spending than in the last few weeks. On the small business web site design front many people are now looking to start new sites, businesses, or projects going into the new year. Thankfully.
I am hoping to get a new cell phone soon. I just have to wait until my Sprint contract expires. I think it does in January. I will be switching to Verizon and most likely getting a new LG phone. Hopefully I can save some money.
I have been continuing to run my web design business on the side. Things are a little slow this month. The economy is not helping things nor is the economy. Hopefully things will pick up soon.
This post was written by WebSiteSB. WebSiteSB specializes in blogging, blog monetization, web design, SEO, marketing, hosting, and the internet in general. If you would like to read more please take a look at our Popular Posts.For many bloggers this is the unthinkable. Months or years of work can be lost when your blog is destroyed and all the posts are lost. How can this happen you ask? There are plenty of ways:
1. Accidental un-installation of software
2. A disk failure
3. A virus or hacker on the server
4. A transfer to a new blog host gone wrong
5. A disgruntled employee
6. And many many other possibilities
In fact I recently had a long time blogger contact me in tears because she had accidentally un-installed her Wordpress software. All of her posts were gone. The first thing you should do in a situation like this is to contact your web site host and ask them to restore your site from a recent backup. This can sometimes be problematic because backups do not always work and some hosts may have a backup that is one to three months old. In this case this web host DID NO BACKUPS WHATSOEVER. The web host said “Sorry you are screwed”. It may appear that you have very few options but actually you have quite a few.
If the database is intact you have two options (primarily for Wordpress but variations would work with other blog software):
1. Re-install Wordpress and try to edit the config file to use the database correctly (not as easy as it sounds)
2. Use phpMyAdmin to Export wp_comments, wp_links, wp_posts, and wp_postmeta and them import these records into a new installation with a new database. This is the option I recommend. If you have Fantastico you can install a new version of Wordpress complete with a new database in just a few clicks. When exporting make sure you select “Add DROP TABLE”, and “Complete inserts”. This is the option I used to successfully and quickly restore the blog of my friend with the bad host.
1. If your database is also gone then things can get a little more complicated. If your blog has been around for awhile and you have a ping service setup you should be able to find most of your posts in their entire text at Technorati. Searching for a domain, viewing that blog and then selecting “view all” should do the trick. I have used my blog as an example. You can clearly see over 34 pages of summarized results. Clicking on the title of the post brings up the whole post all on the Technorati server.
2. You can probably use any RSS indexing site that your blog pings including Feedburner and the like. This should allow you to find at least some of your content.
Other options include:
3. Google caching of your pages and Yahoo site explorer (but don’t wait to long)
4. And even the Internet Archive can usually provide some content from older sites.
5. There are probably a few other ways I have missed. Please share them here in the comments of this post.
1. Not panic. It will be okay and you should be able to recover some information.
2. Go through the above restoration steps.
3. Change your web host in future to one that does make verifiable backups.
4. Backup your blog regularly using a Wordpress backup or a free/paid service like BlogBackupOnline. Note: it is free to backup even daily multiple blogs but you have to upgrade to a paid plan to create a file that you can easily import into Wordpress to do a restoration.
5. Create a good disaster recovery plan.
Good luck and play it smart.