Everything I am will be bought and sold
So here’s what happened. As predicted, my scam of a web host finally went down and my site was saying that my account was suspended. How can it be suspended when it was a base-line fee for lifetime hosting? I even checked the web host’s main homepage and they had a suspended account as well. Go figure. So I wanted to try the other guy’s web hosting that, again, I bought on Ebay as “lifetime” at a base price. I can’t log into that web host’s FTP server at all so my guess is that he was a scam too. (Hell, it was probably the same guy.)
I then went on the usual search for a good web host and decided on GoDaddy because they’re reputable. I shelled out the money and luckily went with them because I had the worst time setting up my Wordpress databases on the new servers. (I chose a Windows hosting package instead of a Linxus hosting package; keep this in mind next time. You must choose a Linxus hosting plan when using Wordpress. Windows won’t allow you to use PHP. The more you know…)
By the time I figured out how to backup the Wordpress database files correctly: again, something to be aware of, don’t bother having the Firestats tables included in your backup database files. All it does is make the file too large to import. I had to cut and paste each table to import it that way; into smaller files. It’s not a huge pain in the ass but it takes some time and patience.
And that’s precisely what happened. I lost patience after doing this and getting no where every day. Finally, after I knew the GoDaddy host was changed to Linux and I had mySQL files cut into a smaller size (I just eliminated all the Firestats tables) then I went to putting the damn thing back up. Plus I found out that when it says it can’t find your wp-header file, it just means to put a copy of it into your root directory. I swear, if it weren’t for the Wordpress forums, I would never get this thing working.
And here I am, with a site that’s up again and even upgraded to WP 2.3. I’m so proud of myself even though it did take a freaking week to get it done. Sigh…
Photo credit: manu contreras
Glad to hear things worked out for you in the end. How does it feel to be all the up to WordPress 2.3?
Thanks. I think my favorite part of WP 2.3 so far is the notification of upgrades for my plugins. That is such a cool feature.
speaking of upgrades, WordPress released 2.3.2
They’re just always going to be one step ahead of me, aren’t they? But I’m grateful that they are. I’ve successfully upgraded to the new version. I’m just hoping all of my plugins are compatible.