Journerdism is getting better all jacked up.

Update @ 9:53 p.m. 6.3.09 - We’re at about 92% strength now. I’m working through 404 errors to weed out problems and have just about restored all the photos (which was a really ridiculously time-consuming process… several dozen had to be redone totally). Unfortunately, progress is going to be put on pause for a little while… I’m going to be out of commission for the next week and a half co-leading the NPPA Multimedia Immersion workshop in Las Vegas and then speaking at the NPPA Visual Journalism Workshops (also in Vegas following the Immersion).  I may update some of the Jambalaya on the fly, but will have to finish the final Frankenstein fixes later. Thanks again for your patience and support!

Update @ 11:30 p.m. 5.26.09 - We’re at about 78% strength now. The pages are still missing, I think I’m going to have to rebuild those from scratch. And some photos are still missing (those may be gone for good). I haven’t tested all the plugins yet, but have most of them installed and configured.

My (soon to be former) webhost, 1and1, has offered one month of free hosting (Approximately worth $9) to compensate for the week of complete down time and 30+ hours of development time resurrecting the site on my end from archives and backups. They haven’t helped with that at all.

It’s my own fault though. 1and1 had a three day outage about a year ago in the spring and after that I bought hosting from the vastly-superior and highly-recommended,  WebFaction, to make the move off 1and1 but started just using my WebFaction account as a development/learning environment.  I should have dropped 1and1 all together and avoided this disaster. Once I get this site back up to full strength I won’t make that mistake again.  

I also should have also backed up more frequently and I wouldn’t have had to go through all the Wordpress database changes from 1.9 to 2.7. (Which is where I think I lost the Pages.)

Lessons you should take from this: 1- Back up your site frequently.  2- Never, ever, ever, ever use 1and1.com for hosting.

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Earlier - As you may have noticed the site had been completely down for a week now. 1and1.com, the hosting company, had a hardware failure and has pretty much lost my (and from what tech support told me 27 others sites) that were hosted on