Roofdog: what could possibly go wrong?
Glitch = a sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment
Editing
July 2020
Something something happened this month on the Austin-based server of the Planeta.com website. Emails from Bill, the website administrator: CPU overload. Restructuring of website. New server.
The result is a loss of some materials published July 5-25. I made some backups, but not everything.
Additional problem-I’m not sure that updates are actual updates. So I am operating/editing/publishing at a reduced rate on the website until I figure out how things are working.
Questions
Is it possible to create a back up of one’s own website?
What is block editing?
Planeta
Some answers:
Yes, it will be possible for you to create a backup of your own website – once we get the size of the current database back under control. (I’m working on that now.) We have a database table which was doubling in size every ~3 days (kind of like the COVID19 cases were for a while) and though we’ve found the cause and flattened that curve so to speak, we’re now dealing with a massive database which makes it too big for the server’s CPU/RAM to create an exportable backup.
As soon as we get the database back down to a reasonable size I’ll detail the best way to take a backup. We’ve already removed around a million extraneous records – only 5-6 million more to go!
PS: it might take some doing, but I hope to be able to recover any missing material.
I’ll point you to some tutorials on block editing shortly. It’s actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it!