WordPress kicked my ass

I thought I’d update to the new version yesterday and be very independent and awesome. I had been avoiding this place because every single time the New Version! New Version! thingy would be up and I just couldn’t handle the added stress. But yesterday I thought, what the heck? I’ve done this before, what the heck could possibly go wrong? Well apparently everything. I swear to god, everything. I’m not going to pretend I know what happened but based on a credible source and my limited understanding I’m going to say I somehow downloaded the devil instead of 2.1.2. At one point it created a random file labeled only by . yeah a . and in it were copies of all the folders of the entire site. The site included pictures from my cousin’s wedding, my mom’s birthday and basically all of my college course work. Don’t ask me why, seriously just dont, but I thought it would be a good idea to just delete the . folder and go on. Weeeeeeell fuck me. I deleted everything. Being the genius that I am I didn’t back up the non-Wordpress stuff up because in my head I wasn’t updating them. Gone. I cried, I yelled then I called GoDaddy to ask if I could get it back. Of course we can do that, it’s just a $150 fee. He said it a little too chirpily. I mouthed, $150, to TBU and pushed through the tears to tell the guy I’d think about it.

I was so discouraged it was pathetic. I emailed this guy to see if he had any tips. I expected him to tell me to just cut my losses and start over. Well this guy is amazing and awesome and the jist of what he said was, Hey, if you want gimme your FTP info and I’ll see what I can do. I didn’t care about giving him my info mostly because no one but me really cares about themillionizer.com and also because it was a temporary. What I was a anxious about was having someone who I don’t know in the analog world do such a huge favor for me. He assured me he didn’t mind so I sent him the info and passed out after 6 hours of trying not to kill myself.

After not thinking about the disaster for almost 12 hours I checked my email from work this morning. There was a beautiful response from Brady, he said GoDaddy sucks but he fixed it. I was on the internet during a clandestine mission so I could only reply with something stupid yet thankfully brief. I don’t know how to thank you properly, so this post goes out to you.

Let’s talk about GoDaddy for a second, shall we? For the last couple days this site has been loading unbearably slow. I called GoDaddy to discuss this. They had me on hold for no less than 18 minutes. Their story was that they were, checking things on the back end here. But I know he was just playing Minesweeper long enough for me to think he was accomplishing something. His final report was that everything seemed to be working fine on their end. Why so much talk of ends? He suggested it might be an ISP issue and that I should call them. I didn’t. Why the fuck would it be an ISP issue. Unless my ISP has restrictions against just themillionizer.com, which I doubt. So when I have no fear of the power themillionizer.com holds over me, I will switch hosts. Until then, sorry if the load time is affecting you.

Where were we? Oh right, WordPress kicked my ass yet again and I have vowed to never upgrade again. I am also in the process of figuring out how to fix the general retardedness around the header and footer. I don’t feel like dealing with it tonight so we’re all going to have to live with it for just a while longer, mmmk? However, I am pretty stoked that 2.1.2 has the old toolbar for posting. I like me some easy to use toolbars.

In conclusion: thank you.

[tags] GoDaddy, WordPress[/tags]