Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Blog is back!!

June 21st, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogging · 1,204 views

Just a quick note to apologize to everyone who reads this blog or subscribes to the feed. We have been offline for the last 4 days due to a hosting issue, basically the old host skipped town.

I have moved host, restored my backups (over 400mb of compressed data) and finally got things back up.

Unfortunately I have temporarily lost some of the data for this blog, it will be coming back over the next few days.

Oh and you might see a few duplicate posts coming through your feed reader as things settle down.

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6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 thomas shaw // Jun 21, 2007 at 9:09 pm

    glad its back up. was wondering where you disappeared to :)

  • 2 Michael Specht // Jun 21, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    thanks thomas, so did I for a while!!

    Still putting all the comments back into the system, damm backups ;-)

  • 3 thomas shaw // Jun 21, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    backup backup!!! hehe. tisk tisk.

    ive actually been thinking of launching my own blog soonish. what are you using? just wordpress?

  • 4 Michael Specht // Jun 22, 2007 at 6:45 am

    Yes I am using wordpress, fantastic platform!

    I have had several challenges getting things back. First up determining that the old hosting provider had in fact skipped town - 2 days. Finding a new hosting provider - 1 day, getting my backups (450mb) back onto the new provider - 1 day, actually restoring the mySQL databases and testing - 1 day. The restoration was not as easy as I thought, thinking of a blog post about it. The final challenge has been my lack of backup schedule.

  • 5 Systematic // Jun 22, 2007 at 11:02 am

    Props to Michael for the overtime!

  • 6 Michael Specht // Jun 22, 2007 at 11:53 am

    Systematic, still getting all the hrblog.org stuff back :-)

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