Seriously…  I’ve been with two different web hosts and both have had the server crash that all of my sites happened to be on and both times all of my data was lost.  So so frustrating.  I understand that these things happen but it doesn’t make it any less frustrating.  ALL of the posts on the mommy board I run…gone!  All of the photos in my enormous album…GONE!  (Thankfully I do have the photos backed up locally, but I still have to rebuild the entire gallery and re-upload everything.)

Gosh, it’s just so frustrating.  I shed many a tear today over this.

Well, I found a small light at the end of the tunnel in looking at my control panel tonight.  When I went into where all of the MySQL databases are stored, lo and behold they were all still there!  So all of the blogs that I host…the data is still there!  Granted, it’s from a backup from 3 days ago, but that’s better than losing everything.  I was able to reinstall WordPress and get my blog back up and running pretty quickly.  The pictures are gone but I’ll remedy that when I get around to reinstalling the gallery.

Unfortunately, I still lost the forum stuff since that wasn’t housed in a MySQL database, but I’m sure my chatty ladies will fill the board up pretty quickly again once I can re-install it.

I still may have some words with my host to see how they can “fix” this for me (a free month of hosting or two).  We’ll see.

I’m done with it all tonight though.  I’m about to hit the sack.  I’m just glad I at least got something up and running.