Ever Do Something Really Stupid?

You may have noticed that the Mom Nation website has reverted back to the Summer. There is a reason for this. I did something really stupid. Being that I am such a fan of self-depreciation, I am going to share my stupidity with you.

Stupid Thing #1: Switching Website Hosting Myself 

I like things to be simple and easy. I moved the web hosting on Mom Nation from one company to another myself. Well, not really by myself. The new hosting company did the move for me. I thought everything was done and magical.

Stupid Thing #2: Not Reading the Entire Email

The hosting company sent me an email saying that the hosting was moved. That’s as much as I read. Apparently, further down the email, they had instructions on changing your name server. As I didn’t read the full email, I didn’t do this.

Stupid Thing #3: Fix the Immediate Issue

Turns out, if you don’t move your name servers on hosting, you really screw things up.

The Mom Nation homepage started showing a 404 ‘Page Not Found’ error.  Once I stopped paying the old hosting company, the website went down with it. *sigh*

I contacted my new hosting company and they walked me through changing the name servers. The homepage was back within hours and all was good in the world again.

That is until…..

Stupid Thing #4: Being Stubborn

I went back to check out the website after the homepage came back up and noticed that all of our posts since September had disappeared into thin air. They weren’t in the admin dashboard or in our cache.

I called the new hosting company and they said that I needed to access the database from the old hosting company. By not changing the name servers, we had been posting all of our blogs to the old host database.

I was peeved about having to pay my old hosting company for another month while paying my new hosting company as well. I got upset. My heart rate started going up and a terrible headache started.

I made the stubborn and silly decision to wait until I had calmed down to deal with the issue.

Stupid Thing #5: Waiting Too Long

When I finally decided to talk to my old hosting company to get access to the old database, it was already deleted. All of our posts were gone. Gone…..

Why am I sharing this with you?  I hope you never have to go through this with your own website. I’m hoping that you will understand why our website reverted back to the Summer. I hope our bloggers will forgive me for losing such awesome content.

Most of all, I’m hope you will continue to read Mom Nation and forgive our stupidity now and then.

Alas, there is a silver lining in this mess. Our new hosting solution will have less down time and our website is already more than 3x faster than it was before. Yay!