The blog was gone and now it’s back

Busy day yesterday, I logged on last evening to find the posts at BDBO gone.
That was a very odd thing to log on too. That was my first reaction – how odd.
Not anger, frustration, panic or a need to fix – just – how odd.

So I went looking. Template was there, the blog-roll, the log-in but no data.
My online home was empty of every I’ve contributed and every comment.
BDBO died along the intertubes and was lost to me.

Honestly, next came shock.
I’ve had this blog wiped out by an angry server guy, it’s been seriously and almost catastrophically flooded by an errant spam bot, but I’d not seen this before.
Coding isn’t something I touch so I got hold of Cre8d-design. checked the server system status and put a support ticket in.
The years BDBO has been with this server company they’ve done their job so well, there has never been a problem.
That accomplished, my job was to wait.

The support ticket I’d submitted bounced.
By then BDBO being lost (maybe for good) was sinking in; fatigue had taken over.
Cre8d-design was on top of trouble shooting and I went to bed curious as to when the blog crashed, and chewing on my personal quirk – why. Why would a data base just disappear?

I went to bed wondering how I was feeling.
H.A.L.T. (hungry, angry, lonely, tired) I wasn’t hungry, I wasn’t angry yet, loneliness is part of loss, I was discouraged with is part of being tired grateful. I was also grateful for this hobby that has been a blast for all these years. It’s been quite an adventure.

I wondered how I’d respond if tech people said, sorry, it’s not fixable, but I was too beat to play with could have, might and maybe around the corners of my thinking and the edges of my heart.
Every blog is unique because the people behind it are unique and that has always been part of the and fun of blogging.

BDBO is back, there was a wp-data base crash the server support staff took care of.

I’m going to ask why data was lost, I need to know why.
If why can be answered I have to know.
What is a logical question for coder and server techs.
How data loss occurred may be answerable, I’ll ask.
Why gives me a baseline for the emotional response I experienced.
What can tell me if I did something incorrectly so I don’t do it again.
What may also provide the odds of possible recurrence.

Why is about regaining an unmeasurable sense of place.
BDBO isn’t a blog I’m interested in tearing apart, misusing or abusing.
BDBO a gift I’m still in awe of, and I don’t take it for granted.
For me BDBO is like a car or a computer. I tend to be tuned into it’s performance.
Server error, coding error, hack, normal disintegration – I don’t know yet.

I realized most of all I wasn’t prepared to give up the community around BDBO which I’ve had the joy (and sometimes frustration:^) of experiencing from the comfort of (as Jordon Cooper says) my online front porch. If BDBO was not fixable, it would come down. How I relate to the community that has sprung up around it would change, but this was data loss, not community loss.

While my opinions are my own, BDBO does not operate in isolation.
BDBO as a site has friends, readers, visitors, a blogging community and server and platform support staff. I remain challenged, changed and blessed.
Once again, gifted people stepped up to help, and I thank them.

BDBO is back.
Let’s blog on!