Some SolderSmoke fans have noticed that many links to earlier podcasts (and other things) have disappeared from the SolderSmoke Daily News blog. This is my fault. I am trying to correct it, but have been having a tough time. This is definitely a problem that is outside my analog, discrete component comfort zone.
The host is Bluehost. They also are the DNS host. This morning I wrote to them explaining the problem:
-- For many years I have had a website on Bluehost called soldersmoke.com. On this website I stored many (around 250) .mp3 files, a .rss. and other important files.
-- On November 20, I created a WordPress site on bluehost: https://dqu.......
-- On November 29, I attempted to have my Bluehost soldersmoke.com site point to the new WordPress site. I may have renamed the WordPress site.
-- After carrying out this action on November 29, I was dismayed to find that all of the many .mp3 and .rss files I had on the soldersmoke.com site are no longer accessible.
-- I have carried out backups of the soldersmoke.com site going back to November 15. While these backups appear successful, the files remain inaccessible.
-- I think there is a pointing/naming/DNS problem that remains to be resolved.
-- Please go back to the pointing/naming action I took on November 29 and undo or reverse this action so that the files that I have on the soldersmoke.com site are again accessible.
-- I am not concerned about the new WordPress blog -- can recreate this later.
With help from Dean KK4DAS we will today again attempt to fix this problem. But if anyone out there has any good ideas on how to fix this, please let me know.
Thanks, 73 Bill
Hi Bill, To me it seems the only way to get the site back is to work with your webhost support . Hope you get resolved. One last option is of course to get a anoter webhost if you have all the backups. But that could involve more work with changing DNS etc.
ReplyDeleteFor the podcast part of this I think you could use separate host just for the podcast, something like https://rss.com/ or there are probably multiple other options too.
When you login into the Bluehost admin page and click the Websites link on the left, do you see your old website listed? If so, when you click the SETTINGS button, do you get a new page that has a File Manager button? I am wondering if you can find your old files that way...
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