I can’t say enough good things about Bluehost. I tried my darndest to destroy esmon.net this afternoon, and they saved my bacon.
How did I try to destroy the site? I deleted its database. Oops.
When I realized what I’d done — trashed every post and every comment on the site — I cried. A lot. I emailed Bluehost and the people at Install4Free (who’d originally installed WordPress for me) for help. I didn’t hear back from Bluehost right away, but one of the Install4Free people got back to me right away (Thanks, Michael!) and said he thought Bluehost would have a backup.
There are so many posts on this site about silly things Poppy has said, or goofy things we’ve done, or nice posts from Rockford. I was seriously feeling nauseous about losing everything.
But Michael gave me hope. I still hadn’t heard from Bluehost, so I called their support phone number. About 20 minutes later, they’d restored everything through February 9. Per another suggestion from Michael, I searched Google for cached pages of posts after the 9th. I was able to find some of them, but I wasn’t able to resurrect all of the comments. After facing the prospect of losing the whole site, though, that didn’t bother me too much.
Here’s the moral of the story: Backup, backup, backup. And don’t mess with your database when you’re on cold medicine. And if you’re looking for a Web host or help installing WordPress, use Bluehost and Install4Free.
I’ve been trying to take a cue from professional photographer and natural light fan Season Moore lately. There was some nice light coming into the apartment this afternoon, and Poppy was willing to let me snap some photos. She even took a few herself!