Scary moment.
June 27, 2008 – 11:43 pmAt approximately 10:15pm PDT I attempted to publish a blog post. At the same time, Bluehost decided to run some administrative work on my server (and attempt to login to my Bluehost account verified this). The overlapping of these two events yielded a short moment of minor panic.
As you would expect, the post wasn’t published. But that was the least of my concerns. Upon attempting to load my blog, I was greeted with this:
That’s never a good sign.
No blog posts. Not a single one. They didn’t even show up when I logged into my Wordpress account management.
I stare at the screen for about three minutes or so. When was the last time I backed up my Wordpress database? Have I ever backed up my Wordpress database?? All of those extremely insightful mikeleotta.com blog posts could be gone forever. An internet tragedy!
Maybe I can still save my internet legacy. I log into phpMyAdmin to check out my database. This is what I see:
Nope, not a good sign either. phpMyAdmin thinks my wp_posts table is “in use.” It’s not in use. I wish it was in use. Something is corrupted. Luckily Bluehost MySQL DB management has a “repair database” option. Worth a shot…
Success! Now all five of you can continue to reference my previous blog posts. Scary, you almost lost that privilege. I think I’ll back up my database right now.
Right after I publish this blog post…what could possibly go wrong?
One Response to “Scary moment.”
Whew, I was worried there for a moment — if you don’t build up a legacy of old blog posts how will you ever compete with Reid and Wysz?
By Rowyn on Jun 28, 2008 - 8:12 am