Major Screwup!
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- mg33
At least I can admit openly my stupidity in doing something that is causing a giant headache right now...
but one of my friends who I did a site for last year called today to ask why it was down. Turns out he didn't notice emails about renewing his account back in January, and they canceled it.
Okay, well, just renew it, right? Sure, but they only keep a site backup for 30 days after cancellation.
*hangs head in shame...
I'm 99.9% sure that I have NO BACKUP at all, maybe only the CSS file it was built with since I coded the whole thing within FireFox. It was a simple 1 column site, but damn, I'm going to have to rebuild the whole thing and the email form was horrendous.
So yeah, let me have it, but word to the wise as a warning: Run periodic backups of your web sites!
- megE0
:( bummer
- ********0
That's not your fault. I mean you should have kept your files unless the site was just utter crap. If this guy isn't bright enough to check for renewal emails for a website then he probably doesn't deserve a site.
- dirtydesign0
How much you gonna charge him to build the new site?
- mg330
I can recode the layout without too much difficulty, but this submit form was a nightmare - even when I used a template site to create it. I had to figure out a few things with php to get it to work and if I don't have a backup of that... yuck.
- invisiblechamber0
give it a try:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.p…- that was the very first thing I tried! Nothing there.mg33
- hm, google always looks the same, does this thing work?jimbojones
- yes, it works - finds stuff you don't want to find...invisiblechamber
- MondoMorphic0
Yeah, I don't know that it's entirely your responsibility to rebuild his site. Once it's delivered, it's kind of your client's baby, right?
- Jordy0
Try google cache .. it saved pretty much everything except for the images...
- pr20
Yeah, for real. It's not your fault. And he didn't visits his site in more then 30 days then it looks like he doesn't even want/need one.
As always the truth lies somewhere in the middle (most likely you are not presenting us the full story as otherwise you would know it's not your fault) so just figure out how both of you should "split" the burden.
- mg330
This particular site is used in conjunction with Google and Yahoo AdWords - this friend buys motorcycles that people submit through a form on the site, and he actually does really good business with it.
but yeah, some of you are right. if he didn't notice in all this time, it's not so much my fault.
- Iggyboo0
How is this your nightmare. Your client didn't back up his files or pay his bills.
Your not at fault and he would have to pay you a fee for finding and recollecting those files. You need to just lay it out to him that the project needs to get redone. And I'd suggest not taking the job due too much time invested and potential headaches from he said she said business.
- OSFA0
I agree, it's his fault! Are you getting paid monthly to keep his shit straight? I'm guessing NO. So let him know that once you are done, it is HIS rsponsibility. After all, it is his website.
- ********0
double check with the hosting company, might still have it somewhere... might need to offer a fee to get them to do it?
- airey0
it's his fault for sure but how did you end up in a position with no backup of the site yourself?
- mg330
Good news! I have some backups - the homepage template, the form code, and the CSS - possibly the final working file. So I still have to put it together again, but it won't be as hard as I thought.
My friend was pretty cool about it as well, he's as laid back as it gets and business seems to be doing well regardless, so, not as bit a problem as I thought it would be.
- Stugoo0
relief! I once deleted a custom CMS, luckily the developer had a copy local.