I don’t like blogging about work for obvious reasons. However, at the risk of carrying out what Tilesey called ‘career suicide’, I will continue with this work related part of this post.
Yesterday, the internet went down in work.
It was down for about 4 hours, including the “Prized Lunchtime Period” where you’re allowed to go on your own sites. I’ll be honest, I felt really, really cut off. Like somebody tensed all my muscles and cooled my body down by half a degree. It was horrible, I was sat at the computer, yet couldn’t access the internet. It felt like somebody had ripped my arm off. I’d love to say I coped, but that lunchtime I did spend on Opera Mini checking my emails. Am I really so bad?
The business suffered too (being a primarily-internet business, having no internet is a bad thing), but when it came back, and by the end of the day, everybody was happy.
Anyway, when I got home, and after watching 15-to-1, I switched on my computer, went to this website, and saw this.
Nooooooooooooo!
I mean, I had backed up the blog this moring, but the forum and the toplist databases haven’t been backed up for weeks. It’s not that I don’t want to. I just can’t be bothered. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one though.
However, after speaking with the fantastic Han (who has earned herself a plug to apricot13, go see it, it’s a lot better than average sex), who explained to me explicitly and concisely what cronjobs were, I managed to set up (I think) automatic backups of all my databases, that are emailed to me every day. I’ve yet to receive one, but there’s still time. No doubt when I get that email, I will tell you.
So, in light of my near misses, here’s a question to get your comment juices flowing. Suppose if somebody deleted your blog, everything you worked on for it, and you had to start anew. What would you do differently?
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
Hmmmm, firstly i have to imagine i had a blog in the first place, then i’d have to imagine what it would be about, then i’d have to imagine it going down, then, finally, imagine what i’d change.
For you, dear Rhys, i’ll jump to the last part: i’d definitely get rid of the peach background and all my semi-racist jokes. They just didnt work in written form.
nothing tbh, I just restarted again and i like my site
surely ud get some security and back up your blog firstly?
and tom – you shouldnt remove the semi-racist jokes, they work very well…. but yeah peach isnt your colour
I’m constantly changing my blog colours/theme. In fact my current one is probably the longest I’ve left it the same.
The only colours you won’t catch me using is red and lime green. I really don’t like those colours.
After I first installed WP I had some monumental problems with it screwing up so I finally deleted the whole thing and did a fresh install. At first I was pretty pissed at loosing nearly 2 years of archives but I thought it would be a chance to start fresh and to be honest I haven’t done much differently apart from change the template around from time to time but it still feels pretty fresh.
Hope you manage to sort out the back-up email