Did you see my crazy blog? On Friday and Saturday, my website looked awful. Little by little, a bug ate up all my posts, pictures, and even my header, replacing them with random images. (A tire? A pine cone?!)
I try not to bore you with talk of technical difficulties on my blog. After all, you’re here for the recipes, not for a lesson in computers. But today I feel it needs to be addressed, since so many of you have recently been reporting 404 errors when you click on a recipe link. Please accept my apologies for all the trouble, and know that I’m doing everything I can to fix it as soon as possible.
When Good = Bad:
I’ve had to upgrade server packages four times in the last two months! But there’s a downside to this growth: a person needs to know quite a lot about technology to manage all the wild things that can happen to a high-traffic site. I’m struggling to learn it all as fast as I can. And every time a reader sends me an email addressed to my webmaster, I have to laugh. Webmaster? Unfortunately, I’m the only webmaster for chocolatecoveredkatie.com… and that’s a scary thought, considering I didn’t even know what HTML stood for until last year.
(Honestly, it’s amazing my site runs at all!)
C-panels, dedicated servers, caches… who knew running a food blog required so much technical knowledge? I really appreciate your patience as I try to fix all the craziness with my blog. And if anyone has an idea as to why people are suddenly getting 404 errors on pages that DO exist, please let me know! I’ve tried so many different ways to fix it—and nothing has worked.
For your patience in sticking with me, I promise you a really yummy post tomorrow.
Question of the Day:
Are you good with computers?
Or are you clueless, like me? Actually, to be fair to myself, I’m not clueless anymore; I’ve learned a lot. But oh my word, was I ever clueless when I started this blog!
Also: Is my site working ok for you now? Or are you still getting error messages?
I am just good enough with computers to survive. I am better than most of my friends but much worse than I wish I were. Almost all of my knowledge I owe to my brother and a year of html at high school.
As for your blog, I almost always read new posts via Google Reader so I don’ even see the header and the menus. The most important part – the posts – is here so I don’t care at all what appears on the header. And the cone wasn’t that bad. Especially if you imagine it was made of chocolate 😉 . I only get a little disappointed when the blog eats my comments but it doesn’t happen often and you receive hundreds of comments anyway so it is not a big deal. Just keep on cooking and sharing!
Ugh I hate when blogs eat comments. If it ever happens, let me know! I love pulling comments out of spam ;). And just because I get a lot doesn’t mean I cherish yours any less. (Sounds dumb, but it’s true!!)
hey katie! your blog has been working fine for me today. thats awesome more people are discovering your chocolate covered genius! maybe you could take a computer class at your local community college to help you run your blog with less technical headaches?
Sorry you have been having all these problems. I have not gotten an error message yet and it all looks good to me…
It looks to be working fine right now 🙂 Blog technical problems are the absolute worst. I feel like I’ve learned a million technical things in the 7 months or so I’ve been blogging and I bet that doesn’t even touch upon what you’re probably dealing with. There seriously needs to be some sort of technical support that you can actually call for independently run blogs! haha
I actually work for a computer repair business so I know quite a bit…sometimes enough to be really dangerous 🙂 I’m learning about website design and such now so this could be fun. Google is always your friend when it comes to looking up fixes!
My problem is that I’m afraid to implement fixes I find on google for fear of accidentally doing it wrong and making things worse! 😕
Your site worked on and off Friday-Sunday. There were a couple of recipes I wanted to try and I had no trouble finding those particular posts (Fudge Babies and Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies; both delicious!).
I’m HORRIBLE with any kind of html, coding, or website work. I’m in the process of having my own site redesigned by a pro..it’s worth the money to me!
It’s working fine for me! 😀
The site is working perfectly for me!
Sorry for the bad bug on the blog (can you say that 10 times fast?) though :\
I’m somewhat good with computers. I can dig around a hard drive and such but not that much.
I also learned how to create a website (nothing fancy, just more like a file that can open a webpage but was very VERY plain)
It is working for me! And I am terrible at computers, so more credit to you for figuring out all of the technical issues!
Your site looks great! We all have issues from time to time – it’s just part of blogging. No big deal, though you were greatly missed! As a side note, my husband is a professional computer geek (also known as a webmaster, among other things) and would be happy to help you out. Let me know if you want his contact info – he’s cheap 🙂
Aww sure! Does he do wordpress? Would he have any idea why people might be getting 404s on my site on pages that still exist and that others can still see?