Down and Out
This time, I cannot help share my personal thoughts here as it involves this community. As most of you all know, the server went dead on us. My webhost did the best he could but because the backup copy was not the latest one, I lost all my plugins, pictures, pages, comments and even the forum.
We moved to another server to get the blog back to live but because I lost many of my precious posts, I felt like I had lost a big part of my life. The most important driver for me was BDMM’s testimonial page which some members had taken so much trouble to write for me. On top of that, I lost all the subscribers to this blog too. It is the worst nightmare in my entire blogging life.
I am not in the mood to put things back together here. I have lost the motivation. Seriously.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:46 am
OMG! What happen.. -_____-”
May 16th, 2008 at 2:49 am
aiyo, so bad luck…can imagine your frustration!
May 16th, 2008 at 2:54 am
Hey Elina….
So sorry to hear this… the important thing is you still have BDMM members.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:54 am
oh my … that’s really a disaster!
will be here to support you, Elina; it’s the least I can do for all the great things you’ve done for us.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Alamak… Elina. So bad. Don’t worry. We are still here. The worst case scenario we lose you but that is not happening. Don’t worry. You have done great job so far. Everything can be build back.
You take care and don’t stop, please.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:59 am
this is terrible. so sorry to hear this. *hugs*
May 16th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Oh my … how can this happen? Sorry to hear that.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:15 am
I am sooo sorry..dont worry..we will still support you
May 16th, 2008 at 3:16 am
What was the URL of your testimonial page? There are several places online that might have your content saved and cached…all may not be lost. Search the waybackmachine and google cache for starters
May 16th, 2008 at 3:37 am
So sorry! I hate technical issues, they’re so time consuming. You’re doing a great job by the way!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Hugs for you.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Oh dear, so sorry to hear that. *Hugs*
May 16th, 2008 at 3:42 am
What a disaster. I cannot imagine losing all of my posts! That would be tragic. As in everything wiped out! Arghhh!
But I hope there’s a chance to restore things… I agree with RealityTVFan, your contents could be restored from Google cache. It’s worth a try.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Oh no!! So sorry to hear this. Don’t give up. Members of BDMM are behind you.
*hug hug hugs*
May 16th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Glad to see it live again.. Congratulations! Toast to you! *glass chinking*
May 16th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Don’t lose heart. The members of the community are all behind you, Elina.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Oh dear! How can this happen????
Sue your web host!
*hug* Like everyone said, no worries… we will always be here for you and with you.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:53 am
We are still here. Relax… Just take your time. I am sure all of us will wait until you feel motivated again!
May 16th, 2008 at 5:02 am
gosh! all your hard work too! so sorry… but don’t feel too bad, we are all with you.. just let us know what we could do to help ya
May 16th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Oh Elina. Really disheartening what you are going through. Very unfortunate. But keep trudging along. Looks like you have a small army behind you. If you ever need another testimonial page, I’m sure there will be plenty of volunteers as you are doing a great job!
May 16th, 2008 at 5:28 am
We all felt your pain….. because we would not want that to happen to any of our blog or any other blogs. It is sure depressing but you can count on all of us here to be there for you.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:57 am
OH NO! I’m really sad to hear this. Nothing can be recovered???!!! I know how you feel! All your precious hard work! NVM…it’s time to look ahead..and for better things!
BIG BIG BIG GIANT HUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 16th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Oh dear, i have no idea how serious the issue was until now. Tell us what you need us to do, and I am sure many would be more than willing to help in anyway we can!
*Huggssss*
May 16th, 2008 at 6:33 am
wei… HUGZ
i can so understand the frustration, but GAMBADE, u have our support okay????
May 16th, 2008 at 7:03 am
We can always start all over again. Remember, we’re still BDMM members.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Thanks for all the wonderful support from everyone and also many thanks to Viki, who gave me some very good advice which made it possible for me to get the “Join BDMM Community” page up so fast!
I have also managed to put some of the missing pictures back but pages, plugins, forums and all of April’s blog posts are still missing. Anyway, I’m back in action thanks to everybody’s encouragement.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Try looking Google Reader or BlogLines for past posts. It worked for me. Even Google Cache can have past posts…
Kenneth
May 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
That is truly a nightmare! I’m so sorry that you had to deal with such a mess. I’m new to your site, and was wondering what had happened.
I’ve had trouble with my host as well, dreamhost, but luckily did not lose anything. People just couldn’t access my site periodically. Great, huh?!?! They did seem to resolve it, though.
Hopefully, your troubles are behind you as well.
Best,
Lisa
May 16th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Elina, don’t lose the motivation. You know we are all here to support you. You know that, don’t you? I can write the testimonial again although it won’t be exactly the same. Stand up again Elina. We believe you can do it. If you need anything, just let us know. Whatever we can do, we will.
Joanne.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Hey, so sorry to hear this and lucky, everything is now back to normal..Almost..remember, we are all here for you! *hugs*
May 16th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
So sorry to hear about what happen here. It must have been awful knowing that some of your hard work has been distroyed. But i’m glad that you’re now back in action again. Thank you very much for not giving up. Many of us will do our part to support this wonderful community.
Hugs and kisses,
http://amidrin.blogspot.com
May 16th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
What a nightmare! I’m so sorry to hear!
But it looks like you have some experienced help here. Don’t give up, Elina. And the people who did the testimonials would be very happy to re-write something, I’m sure. BDMM will be rebuilt, better than ever!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Once again, thank you for the kind words which certainly motivated me to move my a**. I am slowly putting back the pieces….please note SLOOOOOWWWWWLY
May 17th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hi Elina,
If you need help, maybe search for old posts or something, just let us know. You can email me too.
Cheers!
May 17th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Geee got my website wrongly :p
May 17th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
that’s really awful!
well, let us know if u need any help, we’ll try our best..
for the moment, just step back and take a short break till u feel better..
i am so sorry to hear bout it..
May 18th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Oh My. Dont stress out. You still have a lot of mummy supporters including me
Now take a deep breath. Moving slowwwly is better than not moving at all. Here’s a big kiss from a Mummy. Muakkksss 
May 18th, 2008 at 11:24 am
hi elina, just let us know if u need any help on this. so sad to hear that. i know it will be very frustrated if i encounter the same issue as yours.
lastly, dont give up elina. u can get it back slowly. Add oil ya!!!
May 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Have you tried checking with people who have this blog’s Feed? You can retrieve all of them from the Feed. When I lost many of my posts several months ago, I managed to salvage them from Hui Sia’s Feed. Now I have my own Feed URL in my Google Reader as backup of my blog posts.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Wow, that really sucks! I used to have all my posts backed up on my own computer, but then I stopped. Maybe I should start doing that again…
May 28th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I know a web hoster that has daily backups performed on all their servers and can restore upon request. Ideally, you should also perform your own backup every alternate day if there’s lots of posting or changes. Cpanel also offers an automated backup of your web hosting and can be emailed to you after the full backup is done,.