My website was out of commission for a few weeks because my hosting provider EHOST went out of business, taking me down with them. Since their warning messages warning of my website demise ended up in my never-looked-at “Promotions folder”, I was unaware of the pending doom.
I only realized the absence of my internet presence when I sought to add a blog entry. You can imagine my distress (and contained anger) upon the discovery of my electronic demise.
After two weeks of moving the shelved domain to a new hosting site (Bluehost) I rescued by name ThomasGClark.
But what of the content, links, images, etc.? I never printed a “hardcopy”of the site? Why would I ever had needed that anyway? But if I had I would have had all the building blocks to start over
But nothing existed, or so I thought.
Starting from scratch would take months of redesign, reconstruction, and research. Frustration set in. And then a week ago I remember something on the internet called the WayBack Machine.
This lifesaver somehow keeps “copies” of now defunct websites. When I typed in ThomasGClark.net it returned several recent “hits”. Cautiously I clicked on April 2020 and like magic my former internet self appeared, including all the pages, blog entries, links and photos.
Wow! I was willing to pay for a copy of my website, but it’s for free. Yes Free!
So I have been doing the “copy and paste” thing, gladly I may add, to revive my existence.
It also gives me a chance to update some things, streamline the format and make the site more focused. I’m not bringing back all the former blog posts, just the relevant ones.
Ok now that we are both up to date, I’m getting back to my copying and pasting routine. Wish me luck. Tom