I must be made of magnets as of late. Computers are crashing all around me. Yesterday, one of our servers at work died and today I got a message that my hosting company is having server problems as well. I'm less worried about my hosting company. They do wonderful work and fix things in a flash. Plus, they do something very important - they run backups. I run backups of my site as well, just in case, but after years of working with them, … [Read more...]
So, Gmail went down this week…
Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, it was all over the internet headlines. Gmail was unavailable for a few hours on Tuesday, but don't worry fans, it was back by that evening. And users around the world breathed a sigh of relief. Were you affected by the Gmail outage? And more importantly, if you are a Gmail user, do you have a backup plan? I have been using Gmail since 2004, and have a lot of information saved in my e-mail. … [Read more...]
A Carbonite Update
You probably missed it, but on my post about backup methods, I have been corresponding with Dave Friend, the CEO of Carbonite. Seems that he found out about my blog post and decided to do everything he could to look into my problem. Color me impressed. It's so great to see a CEO so dedicated to the quality and public perception of his company that he takes the time to personally comment on blog entries. He also e-mailed me a number of … [Read more...]
Backups? Still important.
Edit: Please see the note added at the end of this post for a comment from the CEO of Carbonite. Last year, I wrote a post about how important it is to back up your computer. I stand by that information. That said, I have to edit my product review. At that time, I recommended Carbonite as an easy "set it and forget it" style backup. I had used them for years on my PC, was happy with how the backup worked, and while I had never had to use … [Read more...]
Thank you, Verve Hosting
I'm sure few of you noticed, but for a short period of time yesterday, this blog was gone. What happened? Well, I'm not sure, but in attempting to upgrade WordPress, something broke. I'm not going to lie, it's quite possibly a PBCAK. I'm always good about downloading backups before I upgrade, in case of disaster such as this, but even with trying to reinstall from backup, things just were not working. As a last chance effort, I decided to … [Read more...]