If you connected earlier today, you probably saw either a PHP error message repeated a zillion times or the following message on a blank page:
Friday, January 6, 2006
It looks like « sknoblog » was totally hosed during « routine maintenance » by my ISP…
And of course, I don’t have a recent backup of the database that contains all the posts…
Stay tuned…
Or not…
🙁
Well, it was hosed. After trying in vain to get some help from my provider, I went to see a movie (« Match Point ») and when I came home, I sniffed around for some things I might try to fix matters. And I found something, and it worked! (basically, I had to run the REPAIR TABLE SQL command on all the tables, several of which were obviously corrupt. Easy, if you’re familiar with MySql which is not my case).
So remember boys and girls: brush your teeth, and make regular backups!