Monday, March 26, 2007

Save the ants blog.

My friend, the one that convince me to start blogging had about his ants farm. That's why I mad my spider farm. Just to make fun that my spiders will going to eat his ants. But I found out recently that hist blog was vanished, just vanished. Seems that at some moment Blogger decided that his blog is not OK and he get a message in the Dashboard under the blog name that the blog si suspended and require manual verification by clinking an link The problem is that when he clicked on the link was getting a a error message that say that the blog don't exist. Also the blog is no longer online, and if I try to access it I get a 404 message with "The requested URL was not found on this server." Even worse then that. If he is trying to create a new blog with the same name it say that the name is not avail because is taken. He had about 30 blogs on the same account but just 3-4 were interesting blogs. The sad part is that it happened to only the interested ones. The ones with most of the visitors. He already completed a lot of support forms and send them a dozen mails with no result. Nobody answer him what is going one.
This is really crappy. He put a lot of time in his blog and now is so disappointed to start all over again. Another blog was about the Foot Man Frenzy (Word of Worcraft) and he had a lot of posts (One year worth of post) and was having Google page rank 5 and a lot of back links. And he really worked for a lot an put a lot of time in to it.
I am wondering what is going on. Did blogger decide to sabotage him or just a technical problem . Maybe somebody flag him just form because it was invidious that it has so much success with his blog. I am really feeling sad for him and and I consider that is really not fear.
I convince him to start all over again but this time using a payed hosing. So in case something go wrong at least will have somebody to sue. After all Blogger is a free service and is not guaranteed.
But I really re command everybody to backup their data once in a while. If you don't care abut your work, why somebody should ? But until now I didn't find a solution to backup the blogger data. I promise that as soon that I will have time I will make a tool that backup a blog and eventually imported in some other blog format like WordPress or Drupal. But I don't think will happen to soon because lately I was extremly busy.