Category: LikeRa.Com

And it indeed happened. Right after I paid for the next 6 month and additional traffic (it’s huge!). It took the hosting company almost two days to recover the service and took me a day to recover the site. The unavoidable stream of gloomy thoughts:

– Why do I still spend my time, efforts and money on all that stuff (yeah, that crappy feeling again)? Apart from the educational part of it?
– Do not rely upon the provider, back up frequently (fortunately I had a backup)
– Isn’t it the time to change the hoster (ha! right after I have extended the contract?)
– Dynamic database based super ultra CMS driven fully automatic everything’s included website is still not as reliable and predictable as plain file based every-change-takes-half-an-hour one. One glitch in the database or in the software (WordPress is not that brilliant as it looks on their website) and you’re stuck with garbled pages.
– OK, back to tracing, troubleshooting, tweaking, profiling, in short all the not supposed to be visible to a normal user stuff.
– Hey, where’s the promised fun? It’s a fetish site to begin with!
– When I was composing the post the server stopped working again… Pissed off…

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Usually these things happen simultaneously.  Regardless of their predictability.

1. Suddenly it happened again.  Something broke. Just like the last time. But unlike last time the blog completely disappeared from Internet Explorer.
2. My son caught a virus. High temperature, etc.
3. The blog admin panel stopped responding.
4. It was the time to upgrade the operating system on my home server. But the upgrade program refused to upgrade it with an absolutely idiotic error.
5. Got rid of the error and upgraded the server. But the graphical interface (along with the rest of my home network) gone with the wind.
6. 3 days and nights later after I tried almost everything I decided to downgrade the system. But just when I was ready to start the downgrading I discovered (thanks to the developers blog) that it is a feature of the new system and there is a simple workaround.
7. The server was back, most of the annoying bugs were fixed, but the blog was still not working.
8. 2 days later the blog started to work again. I did nothing. Apparently it was something wrong with the hoster ‘s webserer (broken redirecting).
9. My son looks OK.
10. Still tired… And the new working week is about to begin in 5 hours.
11. Tea? Coffee? Anybody?
12. %-&