After dealing with a non-responsive and arbitrary hosting company for the past month, things finally reached a breaking point this week when they took my site off-line without any warning and then failed to respond to my tech support emails.
I’m with a new hosting company now.
I believe that all of the text content made it over from the old site, but I’m quite sure that many images – especially older ones – did not. I’m still thinking about the best way to handle this. I may try to reconstruct the image links in the thousands of older posts that included them, or I may just delete them and gradually repost the best of those photographs in an updated format.
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In one bit of good news, it does appear that the old RSS feed is still working.
I think I’m finally making some real progress on getting this web site back to a functional state. I think (knock really, really hard on wood – twice) that this blog and the companion gallery site are now more or less fully functional. One major issue remains and will likely not be resolved until last week – restoring the photographs that were archived in the gallery. At the moment they are gone, but I have a copies and I will be able to take care of the time-consuming work of restoring them.
An update on efforts to get this site working fully again:
The home page appears to work, but…
I discovered today that the hosting company changed something in the configuration that renders all other pages on the site inaccessible. I have a helpdesk request out to them. :-(
I have to completely rebuild my gallery from scratch. :-(
I have created the gallery, but it will take me some time to put all of the photos from the past year back into it. :-(
I continue to try to be polite and not publicly use the words that I’m thinking as I deal with this mess, and I continue to refrain from mentioning who my hosting company is.
Due to complex (to me, at least) web hosting issues this site has been offline for a few days. While the main site is currently back up, problems remain. I’m hopeful that they will be resolved soon, but for now the Gallery portion of the site is not available.
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