Rob Moshe

Growing your blog is not just about writing great post, or randomly commenting on other blogs, its also about interacting with fellow bloggers. To use an analogy. We can walk around down town and not talk to a single person, but put us in a room with the same people and tell us that we have something in common, and we will soon be chatting up a storm.

In the same vein with blogging it is the opportunities for social interaction (being put in the room) that really help us and our blogs grow.

Darren Rowse at Problogger is running a Group Writing Project, which is a great opportunity to meet new bloggers, check out what they have to say and have them check out what you have say.

The topic is ”Reviews and Predictions” what happened in 2006 what’s going to happen in 2007.

One thing I can predict is, if you participate you will meet some incredible people and traffic will increase to your blog.

Check it out now! 

Group Writing Project at Problogger

(This is a continuation of my 5 part post  20. I Wanted to Make My Own Mistakes, Until I realized that It Was Much Easier to Let Others Screw Up. ) 

 

Ultimately all this chaos would never of happened if I would have just backed up my blog.
Once I brought most of my site back, I backed up, this time I would be prepared. And when I post I back up again. I have learned my lesson, and have already backed up twice today. With the WordPress backup it takes about a minute. I think it is time well spent.

At the end of the day we get so busy and are prone to forgetting about all these important nuances.
If you don’t back up and suffer the dreaded loss, remember all is not lost.  Just go through the process.

1. Call your Host and have them restore a past save.
2. Speak to Technical Wizards. They are a fountain of knowledge, and are glad to share what they know.
3. Search the Wayback machine, Google cache and your computers cache
4. And when all is back to normal….BACKUP

And finally in-case I forgot to mention in  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP  BACKUP

 

You can check out the other post in this series.

21. Often Your Best Resource for Lost Web Data Is Your Host.

22. Accessing The Minds Of Technical Wizards.

23. Cache. An Invaluable Internet Currency.

 

(This is a continuation of my 5 part post  20. I Wanted to Make My Own Mistakes, Until I realized that It Was Much Easier to Let Others Screw Up. ) 

 

When getting help from Meller Time on the IRC, he made three great suggestions that both had to do with Cache. At first when you are told to check the cash, you wonder “what does checking my wallet have to do with finding my lost files?”, then you learn that cache is like the historical memory of the Internet. Internet servers and our computers in a sense keep a list of all the places we have been and in the cache it keeps a complete picture. Similar to the way we see a childhood friend in their 30’s and still remember how they looked at 10.

The first cache resource was the waybackmachine, I had known about this one from Alexa. Its quite neat. You put in the URL and if the waybackmachine has a cache of the site it will show you the entire history of it. It is cool to see how sites like Google and Amazon looked in the beginning.
I tried it out for my blog but it was still too new to be tracked by it.

Then next cache resource was Google cache. This is a feature Google offers. in the Google search box you type cache:www.yourwebsite.com and this will take you to a past view of your site. When I did this the only thing I found was my main page. But then Meller Time showed me something really cool. You find site links on your page, copy the URL and then add that after the cache: .  Well after about 1hr of following cached links I had found most of my posts and comments. There were only about six left.

The third place was suggested by Jason and Meller Time. They suggested I check the cache in Internet Explorer and FireFox. You do that by looking in the History folders. For IE you go to View/Explorer Bar/History, for FireFox its View/Side Bar/History.  You click on the links in the folders and they bring up the pages from the cache.  Anyway IE was not an option since I had emptied my Temporary Internet and History folders, but I found five more of my post in the FireFox cache. Jason suggested that I ask readers to check their caches for the remaining post.

The last post I found the next day by checking Google cache again. Jason said that Google updates every few days.

The other interesting thing that you can do with cache. If you are searching on Google and you get a result that give you an error page, you can click on the cached page option at the bottom of the search result and it will give you the historical page.

In Closing.

24. Did I Mention “BACKUP!”

 Or you can check out the other posts in the series.

21. Often Your Best Resource for Lost Web Data Is Your Host.

22. Accessing The Minds Of Technical Wizards.

 

 

(This is a continuation of my 5 part post  20. I Wanted to Make My Own Mistakes, Until I realized that It Was Much Easier to Let Others Screw Up. )

After erasing my blog and completing the process of shock, hysterical laughter, and panic, I called my friend and Technical Wizard Jason Spiro. To say the least Jason is brilliant, if he can’t figure it out himself he knows where to take you to solve the problem. In my case he had a few suggestions, but ultimately the route he took me, was something called IRC , which is basically a real time chat room for group conversations. Jason then had me download an interface called X-Chat, which aids you in accessing the IRC. After loading up the programme, putting in my user name, and selecting the “freenode” channel, it asked me to choose my group Jason had me type in #wordpress (you always need the pound sign). Suddenly I’m in a chat room with 182 WordPress Techies. I asked my question, and a user by the name of “Meller Time”, who after kindly reprimanding me for not backing up my files, helped me to begin piecing back together my blog.

The IRC and its Technical Wizards are a great resource for solving many of your tech problems.

Here is the super tip that Meller time gave me.

23. Cache. An Invaluable Internet Currency.

 

Or you can check out the other post in the series.

 

21. Often Your Best Resource for Lost Web Data Is Your Host.

24. Did I Mention “BACKUP!”