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Yesterday I had to say goodbye to one of my dogs I had for 14 years, he was fine and then couldn't stand up or walk, he had been eating less and less this summer and losing weight, and getting wonkier in the rear but he was doing okay and then just went downhill rapidly.
I called my vet's clinic and got the unexpected bad news that the one vet was out of town till Monday, just great... my regular vet is around 90 years old now doesn't know how to run the crematory and their cooler is full. So they told me another vet who they use on-call had a 2:30 appointment at their clinic and he could come out to do the procedure around 3 PM and could do the cremation for me, I had to leave work and wait a while for him to arrive.
So that was done without any issues and I went back to work, then come home and started wondering why one of my email addresses doesn't log in any more, so I checked out the cause and discovered my entire web site was showing as "suspended, contact customer service"
Just great since the site/domain handle most of my emails, all of my photo hosting for my Ebay pages, my client mailing list/newsletter, blog and more and everything was broken.
So I log into the client area and read how they decided after 15 years of hosting to call it quits, please backup your files immediately Aug 31 is the last day, but my site was down July 31, waiting anxious hours for them to respond to my ticket I discovered I didn't have a full site backup any newer than 2010 and there's been a LOT of changes since!
I also found Google and archive.org only had spotty cached copies of some of the pages- individual pages and archive.org adds their own menu and header codes to the html that would all have to be stripped out.
It wasn't looking very viable to rebuild the site from memory and some cached pages saved one by one!
They eventually replied to the ticket and said I'd have to pay $29 to reactivate and bla bla bla, so I did and it was restored so I could get full backups.
I spent the better part of today moving to a new host and fixing everything, new host means the home directory path changes, so databases and links no longer work right because the path/url is wrong.
What a pain in the arse!
I called my vet's clinic and got the unexpected bad news that the one vet was out of town till Monday, just great... my regular vet is around 90 years old now doesn't know how to run the crematory and their cooler is full. So they told me another vet who they use on-call had a 2:30 appointment at their clinic and he could come out to do the procedure around 3 PM and could do the cremation for me, I had to leave work and wait a while for him to arrive.
So that was done without any issues and I went back to work, then come home and started wondering why one of my email addresses doesn't log in any more, so I checked out the cause and discovered my entire web site was showing as "suspended, contact customer service"
Just great since the site/domain handle most of my emails, all of my photo hosting for my Ebay pages, my client mailing list/newsletter, blog and more and everything was broken.
So I log into the client area and read how they decided after 15 years of hosting to call it quits, please backup your files immediately Aug 31 is the last day, but my site was down July 31, waiting anxious hours for them to respond to my ticket I discovered I didn't have a full site backup any newer than 2010 and there's been a LOT of changes since!
I also found Google and archive.org only had spotty cached copies of some of the pages- individual pages and archive.org adds their own menu and header codes to the html that would all have to be stripped out.
It wasn't looking very viable to rebuild the site from memory and some cached pages saved one by one!
They eventually replied to the ticket and said I'd have to pay $29 to reactivate and bla bla bla, so I did and it was restored so I could get full backups.
I spent the better part of today moving to a new host and fixing everything, new host means the home directory path changes, so databases and links no longer work right because the path/url is wrong.
What a pain in the arse!
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