Pinoy Dreamer

The Restoration

File corruption and data loss is one of the major problems a blogger like me could experience. It was a nightmare. I’ve lost 90% of my precious comments from kind readers and majority of my posts. What I did is I contact my free webhost service provider and asked how to resolve the problem, and as expected, it went to no avail. I received email, not giving me any solution, but gave me something to feel frustrated about. I no longer recovered my comments, but fortunately Google and Yahoo helped me recover my blog posts. I gather all the cached version of my pages and scraped all my articles and reposted them as of the same date they were originally posted. Thanks to wordpress’s unlimited functionality.

I threw my free webhost account away and transferred to one of my paid webhost service provider. I replaced my current hosted domain there to Pinoy Dreamer, which is my major domain. As of now, everything is working well. I’m paying for it, so I’m expecting a better service.

As old as the saying  “Content is King”, we should always create a backup for our sites, especially our blogs. There are lots of free blogging platforms out there that we could use as mirror/backup sites, wordpress is very much recommended. Also, it is always adviced to search for good web hosting services. There are lots of webhosting directories like Web Hosting Geeks’ green hosting that offer lots of reviews about a particular webhost providers you are aiming at. This should be an SOP before making a choice in what webhosting service you will engage yourself at.

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