{"id":167,"date":"2010-10-20T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.chewbode.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2016-04-24T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T17:15:44","slug":"the-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/20\/the-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

“To be reborn is a constantly recurring\u00a0human need.”\u00a0-Henry Hewes
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A while back I stopped supporting this site. A lot of things took over my life, and, frankly, I purposely neglected it. With the advent of Facebook and Twitter, why would I need to keep up on my own site anyway? Why deal with all that work and custom code? And to top it all off, I never wanted to market it, so no one really visited. The result: into the dark, dank corner of the internet it slipped. And was forgotten.<\/p>\n

Until one day, about a month ago, I wanted to get some data off the site. I literally hadn’t visited it in over a year. And, lo and behold, the site was down. Glitch? No problem, I’ll fix it. So, I logged into the admin console at the hosting company and to my horror I found the site was gone. Just. Gone. No files, no nuthin’.<\/p>\n

I contacted customer support and asked them to restore the site from backup. After going around with them for a couple of days, they finally came back and told me the credit card I was using to auto-pay for the site was declined seven months ago (my card expired and I never updated my account info). On top of that, I shut down my Exchange server in early 2009, so I wasn’t getting email sent to those domains, which I thought was fine. Guess where the hosting company had sent the payment error emails?<\/p>\n

So, they only kept three months of backups of the site. They cancelled my account due to payment failure. So, chewbode.com and all it’s lovely contents and hard work went bye-bye.<\/p>\n

I was irritated for a couple of weeks. Then, one day, I realized that the reason that I was irritated wasn’t because of the hosting company’s lack of backups, but that I let all that history
\n(four years of blog entries, photos, stories, etc.) slip from my grasp. I missed my data. I missed the site – the site I had decided I didn’t need in my life a year prior.<\/p>\n

Proof was in the pudding, as they say. It was time to start rebuilding the site. As of now, there is simply this blog. Nothing more. But I will continue to build the site and will make it better than the old one.<\/p>\n

To be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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