I’m back up after 8 days from the disaster that was WebHostPlus.  I don’t know if it was space aliens or pirates but I am grateful to google for cashing copies of the hundreds of pages that I had in databases that weren’t backed up. 

The original rumor was that the new owners were pirates and stole the hardware in the night. Now the story is hackers brought it down.

The server came back on 9/27/06 and I got to back up my databases so I’m pretty well restored now. I have off-site backups now.  I’ve been doing way way way too much web work the last couple of weeks. I did get to do a couple of new sites:

• Cooking with Janet – recipe blog for my mother.
• Portland Shambhala – pared down website for the Portland Shambhala Center with pretty cool calender/event dynamic functionality.

I’ve been teaching Paul how to use wordpress to update websites.  He made his first webpage edits and link changes. WooHoo