When your web hosting company closes you down unexpectedly, that’s one big challenge. When you’ve got 50 sites, that’s a huge challenge. When something goes wrong with the process of restoring the backup files for 50 sites, THAT… is a nightmare.

And that’s what I’ve been wrestling with these last few days.

Here’s why.

My old host suspended me for having too many files on my unlimited disk space hosting account. Yep, it’s in the fine print that you cant have too many files… but it would have been nice if they had given me the 14 days they wrote to me about. It was 14 days to remove the excessive files or they would close me down. TWO DAYS LATER, they suspended all my sites. Not nice, if you ask me.

Well, I asked them to change their mind but they said no. Next I asked for FTP access (so I could download my web content) and CPanel access (so I could download the .sql files) to my content on their servers – and they said yes. So I busied myself with a great deal of downloading. Remember that’s 50-something sites.

Then at my new hosting (which is with Hostnine), I used Fantastico to create a new WordPress blog at each of my blog sites… which is most of my sites. Think: big big job. Lots of sore back time.

Well, for this story, let’s just use one example… garyharvey.net, this site.

STEP BY STEP

Fantastico installed a new WP blog, just the default blog with the boring Kubrick them. But it was working, so… we’re doing okay so far. Read the rest of this entry