At least that's what my statistics and my number of feedreader subscribers are telling me. Sometimes it's my fault when things like this happen. It wasn't my fault this time.
Sometime around 7:30 pm on the 24th (US Eastern Time), my web hosting provider's "Server 2" main hard drive failed. It took until about 1:30 am on the 26th (US Eastern Time) to restore all the websites, including both of my blogs. Of course, I didn't know my blogs were available until a couple of hours later due to my crappy DSL connection being down again.
I really can't pick on my hosting provider. It's not ALL their fault. They offer a good deal for new subscribers and are getting new customers faster than they can hire support staff and add additional equipment. Most good hosting providers fall into this trap sooner or later. In this case, they had no way of knowing their primary hard drive would just stop working without any warning signals.
The ironic part of all this is that I had just finished watching Darren Rowse's video on being prepared for a worst case blogging scenario. Luckily, my primary source of income has nothing to do with my blogs or I'd be freaking out by now.
I only lost my most recent post and comments and that's only because I didn't have a backup that occurred after I posted it. I restored the post from Google Reader and the comments from my email archives.
It appears that some of my readers, upon seeing that my blog's URL wouldn't resolve, decided to bail on me like so many rats fleeing a sinking ship. Oh well, life goes on.
(The image "vortex de rats.jpg", an appropriate title, was obtained from Deadline Hollywood Daily.)
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