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That’s the nice message I got from WordPress after I had to start from scratch because I accidentally deleted the database that this site was being run off of when I was cleaning up my server. I won’t go into the details of how that happened, but rest assured I didn’t see “wordpress.peterleonhardt.com” database and say, “Oh! I can delete that!” It was more like “obscurehostname.obscuredomain.com” and said… “I don’t use a database on that site anymore… it can go!”

Several days pass and I, for no reason apparent to me, google myself. Low and behold PeterLeonhardt.com comes up as the first result, but the quoted text is a wordpress error! Ughhh…

Alas, here we are and I’ve restarted up one of my sites that I let die back in May. It is on course to make up the cost of the VPS I had to get (since it can’t be hosted on a shared server, hint hint) for it. It is growing well and will hopefully profit next month. I’m probably going to set up some copy cat sites of it too, since it takes 0 maintenance time, and I can just let them run, maybe rebooting the server once a week or so to keep things running smoothly.

I’m also working on the rewrite of Textbook Haven. Originally written in procedural PHP (yick!), I hope to be rolling it out as a Ruby on Rails app in a few months. Along with simply rewriting the back end, I’ve added a number of features and have designed it so adding features in the future will be much easier than in its current incarnation.

Thats the news for now!

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 @ 8:11 AM Blogging
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