So long, Fare well, Auf wiedersehen, Goodbye!
About 15 months ago, a number of posts disappeared from this blog. I tried to find out from the hosting company what happened, but they were unable to help me. There was no apparent reason for it to happen, so they didn't have a clue. They couldn't even reload the posts since they don't back the blog up!
As a result, I started keeping backup copies of my posts.
Things went back to normal again for a while, but about four weeks ago, I was working on a post, and it went away. Just disappeared! When I did an inventory of all my posts, over 40 of the 175 were gone.
While I have backups of most of those posts, it occurs to me that putting them back on the blog site would involve each of you subscribed here getting a mailing of each old post as I reinstall it. All by itself, that is enough reason for me to not put them back, and not stay with this unreliable host.
As a result, I am going to leave this site and start up somewhere else. When I have populated the new site with the old posts, I will inform you where that is and ask you to resubscribe. Whether you do or not, of course, is up to each of you. If you don't, know that I will miss you. To those who do, thank you in advance for staying with me. This has been very frustrating to me, and I appreciate your loyalty (or whatever it is).
TTFN ("ta ta for now")
Sid Plait
As a result, I started keeping backup copies of my posts.
Things went back to normal again for a while, but about four weeks ago, I was working on a post, and it went away. Just disappeared! When I did an inventory of all my posts, over 40 of the 175 were gone.
While I have backups of most of those posts, it occurs to me that putting them back on the blog site would involve each of you subscribed here getting a mailing of each old post as I reinstall it. All by itself, that is enough reason for me to not put them back, and not stay with this unreliable host.
As a result, I am going to leave this site and start up somewhere else. When I have populated the new site with the old posts, I will inform you where that is and ask you to resubscribe. Whether you do or not, of course, is up to each of you. If you don't, know that I will miss you. To those who do, thank you in advance for staying with me. This has been very frustrating to me, and I appreciate your loyalty (or whatever it is).
TTFN ("ta ta for now")
Sid Plait
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