04/21/2024 - 4:51 p.m.

So, I was just notified that my web site had been taken offline. (A couple weeks ago!) It's back online now. But it's left me kind of jangled...

They'd told me I could restore my web site -- but I couldn't log in to the server. (I have two accounts, and of course it was the second one I tried -- and I couldn't remember its password, and had to go into their web site to do a password reset...)

So, password reset, login accomplished, directory found... Then I just needed to look up the command for copying a directory back to its original location. But of course, that's just the beginning.

I mean, I should be happy because my site's all back online now, right? Wrong! They threatened they'd delete it permanently, unless I fixed.... what?! They never told me what it was that made them take it down in the first place! (They told me to check my logs, but they've long since been deleted in the intervening weeks.)

They also suggested I could just fix this load issues by just enabling their "cache" feature. Except when I tried that, their web site said no, actually, they were unable to do that. So... the threat to permanently delete my web site still stands?

The next step is obviously to email them. (Could you enable the cache? Or could you give me some clue as to what load issue was so terrible that you threatened to permanently delete my web site?) I phrased it more nicely than that -- very polite, asking all the right questions, signalling my willingness to cooperate. But you know what the next step is after that, right?

Wait.

Just sit there, and do nothing.

And wait. And hope they don't permanently delete my web site. Hope I can figure out what thing it is -- and then, also, hope that I can fix it. Or, alternately, hope I can make it go away if I throw some many at that.

Bah....

It's not so bad. I've got the site back online. Maybe we will get the caching running, and maybe it'll fix things. Or maybe they can tell me what the issue is. Or I'll find in my access log someday. In short, maybe their tech people will actually have an easy fix...

When they get back to me. After the waiting is over.

Here's where I should have a positive attitude.

You know what? I really, really need to get something to eat right now...