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After GoDaddy crashed my entire site\u00a0for nine days, I’m finally back up and running with a brand new web hosting company and faster, more secure servers.<\/p>\n
During what was supposed to be a routine migration to a new server, they broke my databases, then overwrote the good backup versions with the new corrupted versions, which rendered my site totally inoperable. With each passing day, hours on the phone with the GoDaddy techs and still no resolution, I was getting concerned that all of my\u00a0content (890 post and 60 pages) and over 10 years of work would be gone and that I’d have to rebuild my entire site from scratch.<\/p>\n
And even though\u00a0I have\u00a0cached copies of many of my previous posts, I would still have to manually repost them, which would take more time than I currently have allotted for non-bike riding time.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, they were able to locate and recover\u00a0“good” backup\u00a0versions of my\u00a0databases. All of my content was saved, except for the last month, which was only four blog posts. However, the databases were still damaged, and even though GoDaddy\u00a0closed the ticket called it good, I still couldn’t get into my WordPress dashboard and do anything.<\/p>\n
By this time, through a recommendation I received from another photographer friend, I’d already found an awesome\u00a0new web host called Host Duplex<\/a>,\u00a0and we started migrating everything over yesterday morning. As of this writing, my main website, blog\u00a0and email are fully running from the new host and I am both relieved and incredibly grateful for the “above and beyond” assistance that Host Duplex has given me.<\/p>\n Unlike many\u00a0large hosting providers that offer cheap prices and low priority call centers, Host Duplex<\/a>\u00a0is a small Los Angeles based company\u00a0who is focused on\u00a0providing “perpetually excellent\u00a0customer service.” they also offer high performance systems, a strong backup strategy and rock solid security against hackers and malware. And apparently, they like hosting photographer and filmmaker blogs!<\/p>\n After my GoDaddy debacle, where I was dealing with a\u00a0different tech every single day and getting little to no real help, I had one person<\/strong> I dealt with at Host Duplex. He not only helped me get moved over, he actually did all of the work migrating, updating\u00a0and\u00a0optimizing my WordPress installs and even created\u00a0a brand new user login to replace the missing file\u00a0that GoDaddy lost.<\/p>\n I cannot even begin to express with words (emojis, maybe) how awesome this was. It got me from standing there with a broken website in my hands to being back in business in just over 24 hours.<\/p>\n
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