Saturday, February 20, 2016

Beware of Free Web Hosting!

So over the past week or so, I have been consolidating all of my seven or so blogs into this one dogpile. The idea was to just have one place to go to to post whatever I needed to post. I've been scouring all my old blogs, trying to import each individual post to this blog.

At one time, I had used Wordpress, then I purchased my own domain name. I shopped for some free web hosting, importing all my Wordpress content to their servers. I have used 000webhost, Free Hostia, but worst of all, Byethost. It seems that I have evacuated all my content from 000webost and Hostia, funneling everything into Byethost. But a couple of years ago, my website died on their servers and I didn't have the time to keep up with their shitty email support, so I just let it be dead, never to revive itself again.

Well, this week, I've been trying to get back into my Byethost account. Apparently, they've changed their name, wiping out their accounts database. I've tried to contact them, but they don't even recognize my email address! Their login screens are all broken- every time I try and log in with my original credentials, it automatically changes my usrname in the textbox.

Thankfully, there's not much of anything in there on that blog, so it's not that big of a deal. I will just let it go and build up around it anyway.

In any case, shopping for free hosting is really a crapshoot. Make sure you back your stuff up, because one day, your host might just change their name, db's and blow away your credentials, and not even email you about the changes! I'm sure I've got that Wordpress backup somewhere on one of my backups. Now I have a new project do do- hunt for remnants of my old Wordpress!

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