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My travel blog has found a new home: Goodbye Ploghost

March 14, 2009

Finally… my travel blog happysteps.net is now transferred to another web hosting service! Thanks to my techie bro for helping out with backing up my database and going through the process of moving my files to the new server. At least I won’t have to deal with unreliable webhosting (Ploghost, that is) anymore, and I hope there won’t be frequent unscheduled server downtimes and unsatisfactory technical support in the future. What I’ve learned from the whole experience is just simple: back up your blog regularly!

Blog maintenance is very much important, and unfortunately, I haven’t backed up my database files when the unexpected disaster occurred, when Ploghost’s server crashed. They didn’t have backups of my website, so my site was recovered with a database that was dated to October 2008.
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