So let me start off by saying sorry for the website being down the last week or so. We had a major meltdown with our current service provider GoDaddy that resulted in all of our data being deleted. I'll delve into the sordid details later, but the long and the short of it is that GoDaddy will not restore our data without us first paying them $150 for the privilege.
I mean, it's not like they are an ISP or anything right? It's obviously totally unexpected to think that they should provide an interface to the back up service that is routinely copying our website, right? It's not like they host thousands and thousands of websites with millions of bytes of data scattered across their hundreds of servers.
When I first searched the web about a year ago looking for a new ISP, I found hundreds of horror stories about peoples experiences in dealing with GoDaddy. Most of these dealt with trying to obtain technical support, but since I am a computer guy, I went with them anyway, mostly due to the cut rate pricing. Well, I guess common sense is the first thing they cut.
Hey GoDaddy, maybe you should save a couple of billion by taking Danica's Indycar and Nascar budget away and let her operate the tape back up unit instead. Then you wouldn't have to charge me $150 every time I want to use a service that is supposed to be included for free. You guys suck.
In any case, I have managed to restore all of the logs from my local machine, but the pictures will take some time to get back online. I also do not think the comments to each individual log entry will be retrievable and for that I apologize. It's always been my favorite part of the whole blogging experience and I wish there was a way to restore them, but I am afraid they are lost to the evil empire known as GoDaddy.
Hopefully within a week or so I'll have the site back to the way it was. Stay tuned, more to follow.
PS - I think GoDaddy should be more like escalators. Escalators can never break, they can only become stairs. If an escalator stops moving they hang a sign up that says "We are stairs - Sorry for the conveniance."