Oh boy, that was close! Yesterday, we had a blackout of sorts on my blog. I must apologize for that. Here’s why, incase you tried to read my blog and couldn’t.
First, I must say that I love learning things and as with a baby, you fall a lot when you’re first leaning how to do something.
Ok, so, I have been rolling along quite nicely in my mind. I’ve made some significant strides in my posts with pictures, and adding new things.
Well, while sitting in my tub, using my new #Anespa, (I don’t sit very well) I thought I would watch a video on my phone since I don’t have a TV in my bathroom. I know, I can hear some of you saying “oh gezz”, really? But yes, really ritzy hotels have them in the mirrors. One minute it’s a mirror and with a click on a remote, it’s now a TV! Hotel 32, which is on the top of the Monte Carlo, in Vegas has them. OMG, the nicest hotel room, I’ve EVER stayed in. And I’ve stayed in a lot.
Anyway, off my topic. Oh Yeah, I’m in the tub watching a video of the founder of Learn-to-Blog, and a Mom of 4 kids, who started a blog and now that is all she does, to make a living for her family is BLOG. I didn’t catch her info, obviously, I was unprepared to take notes. But, I saw enough to know that I wanted to learn more.
I am the type of person, who will learn as much as I can and apply what I learn, for Free, for as long as they will give it. I’m starting to get bombarded with buy this, and buy that for building your business. Whatever! I’ve owned my own business, of one sort or another all my life. Enough to know, you could go broke trying to figure out what to do and what not to do. So I have pretty good discernment over that stuff.
So, the next day I decided to join with Learn-to-Blog. They earned my trust and I signed up. 37.00 a month or something like that. Cheaper if I paid in full for a whole year, but I just did the 37, because my big (seriously) Enagic Thank You Commission checks hadn’t arrived yet.
Yay, I’m in. I got a call from the nicest guy, Jeff from Learn-to-Blog. Welcoming me to the group, and that I was given permission to join the group of members in private chat.
Jeff used to live in our area, one thing let to another. He was extremely helpful answering my questions, etc.
So here’s the part where we get into a little bit of the technical difficulties. He said that I would never get to where I wanted to go with my blog, being hosted, where it was. We needed to move my blog to a place like Hostgator, which looked like a really cool site.
I jumped on it, paid the fees and before I thought about all that needed to be done first, I told the current host, that I wanted to move my blog, or domain name, to the new location. No problem right? Jeff is still on the phone with me and I felt empowered to do this so when it came to press submit changes, I did.
That’s where our OOPS came in. What I had done, was basically move my building, without packing any of my belongings. My site was not there anymore, and I couldn’t access the new place yet, and let me tell you, I am dying! I had just made a really cool post about the Anespa, and done all the work to promote it and it’s BLACK OUT TIME!
I kept my cool, through excruciating hours of no blog. Remember, I’m the type of person who keeps my head during a crisis. To me, this was like driving down the freeway in the Motorcoach with no brakes on my Florida trip. (See Posts earlier, if you missed it. Its not for the faint of heart)
We decided to call it quits until the new hosting company and all the search engines had been notified of the move. Jeff mentioned that we had been on the phone for what seemed like an eternity! That’s dedication! He deserves a raise guys! I told him I wouldn’t send him a bill for my time, and he was like WHAT??? We laughed, because at this point what else can you do?
I went to dinner on pins and needles. Not knowing if I would be able to get back the hours of time I’ve spent on blogging lately, was killing me. Checking every 15 minutes or so, still nothing.
Finally around 10:30, Eureka! It was up and running, all my posts are there, pictures, stats, everything. I called Jeff and left a message. I was thanking him profusely! His computer still had my blog up, so he copied it to his computer. He had gone in with my password and packed up all my stuff that I couldn’t get to anymore, and waited till the site was ready, and unpacked it for me. Whew, OMG!
Or so I thought. Next morning I find that I don’t have everything, and we need just a few more tweaks from Jeff. I called and left a really nice message for when he got into the office area, since he’s 2 hours behind me. When he called back he told me he didn’t really have time to help me right then. My heart sank! Steady! He said let me try this real quick. He got it.!!!!!!
I am such a happy girl, and I would trust these guys with my blog any day!
I can’t wait to dig in and learn more! So, if you like my blog, please feel free to ask me any questions or comments!
Thanks for reading my blog! I praise God that a tornado didn’t hit it, in my path to learning!