So, there I was, about a week ago, thinking I’m pretty clever to hack out a PHP Scripty that would give a big UP YOURS to the referrer spammers who’s been frequenting my site.
The only hitch in my grand scheme of spammer annihilation, was the tiny, minute detail of me actually not knowing what I was doing.
The result? An infinite loop in my script, the crashed shared server of my host and my deleted account. Of course, they didn’t ask any questions, didn’t save any files, they just solved the problem of their crashed server, ie. my account and all it’s content.
That means that more than 6 months worth of posts were wiped, erased, deleted from existence. I was not happy, but as I was the cause of their server crash, what could I do. Note to self: back up regularly and don’t use production servers for your poor knowledge of PHP!!
Lucky for me, Google was a frequent visitor to my site and I could retrieve my entire Blog from their cache. Amazing, isn’t it?
Then, after a week an a half of backwards and forwards with my host, they finally said they’d re-instate my account, and today, finally, it’s working again. So I will start to pain-stakingly re-post my Blog.
In the past week, of course, lots have happened, and I’ve nearly exploded due to lack of posting. But once I’ve got the Blog back to it’s former self, I will update that too.
In the meantime, I see the spammers have gone ballistic, but as it’s not really bothering anyone other than myself, I will let them be. Sigh.