Hello in 2024

Is this how I start blogging again?

Can’t believe I’m back to Blogger after all these years. After 2014, I shifted my blog to Wordpress self-hosting and continued writing on lifeisinthesmallthings.com. The platform was great but at the end of last year, my hosting plan with Hostgator came up for renewal. By then I was thinking of shifting back to a free plan because I’ve hardly written anything in the past couple of years. So I decided to shift to a monthly renewal in order to give myself some time to migrate my content. The fact that I encountered some errors just changing the settings should have cued me to the fact that the site had issues. Anyway, my renewal date came up and my payment would not go through. I tried both my credit cards including my everyday go-to card which I know works 100%, and also tried using my PayPal account but it didn’t work. Was puzzled, came back a couple of times but still encountered errors. Reached out to chat a couple of times and managed to get an escalated support ticket. They replied to me a week later (despite the automated response saying it’d be 24 hours) and assured me the issue was being looked into. I thought that was it and they would get back to me soon. BUT. A few days later I tried to access my blog and it was unavailable. I checked my hosting plan and to my horror it had been deleted?!?

So here I am, stuck begging escalated support to get back to me with info of when and if it is possible to recover my content. I’ve sent 3 e-mails in a week and heard nothing. Ugh. I’m desperate but honestly not very hopeful. It’s given me several days of sleepless nights but I think I’ve just come to terms with the fact that it might be gone forever. I can only blame myself for not backing up manually more often or for taking more active steps when my content was still accessible. I’ve lost 151 posts, and I think mostly from 2015 to 2016 since by the time Natenate was born I was already writing very little. I guess chances of recovery are low but it’s not impossible until they say it is. And until then I’ll still be praying.

ANYWAY.

Here I am, back on Blogger. 

HELLO.