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 the same server. They’re trying to resurrect what they can but it’s not looking good.

I’m working through some of my old backups to resurrect what I can, so please excuse the database errors, missing pictures and whatnot during the transition.

Thanks for your patience and for reading Journerdism,
Will