What happened to Directorydream.com? Wasn't it once a nice PR6 paid directory? It seems it's down for long. Any idea who's the owner of it?
Maybe doing maintenance or had a minor hiccup, how long has it been down? owned by Velocity if im not mistaken, hopefully he will get it sorted soon.
Hey guys, Directorydream is coming back online in about a week. I asked bluehost to close the account where I was hosting it, and move it to my other account. They closed the account without moving it, and I have spent about a month probably talking to every single support person there. At the end they could not provide me with the backup, so I have been rebuilding everything manually. I didn't have recent database backup because they do have up to two weeks old backups, but somehow this was deleted as well I have lost tons of modifications I have done over the past few months as well. I know it is partially my fault tool, so now I have a new host that does off site backups every single day
Nice to see that you are still here with us. I didn't see you active in this section untill now, but I can tell you that I am glad that another experienced dir owner is still here with us. PS: nice directory you have Thanks, hyper
Sorry to hear that. This is why I stay away from big hosting companies. Seems fear had the same issue on qoobe.org a few weeks back which I helped him fix. PM me if you need a hand.
Pleased you are on your way to getting things running again, sorry to hear of your problem though, i recently had a minor issue with one of the hosts, something went wrong and they worked to get things back for the affected customers but backups were up to around 2 days not up to date if that makes sense. Fortunately i had my own backups and was able to sort that out myself, made me glad that i backup daily, and proved that sometimes you really do need them handy.
Bluehost was very good when I got my first account with them. They were much smaller back then, and I could really see how their support deteriorated with growth. I was actually closing two of my accounts with them since I got a dedicated server with daily off site backups, and that is when everything happened. As soon as I restore the site it will be moved to my server. They do have a backup, but it was deleted with account. Why, I cannot understand. I do have a database but it is not very new. So I have a lot of work ahead of me
Lesson Learned : Will take the backup of everything including files & databases manually before moving any site from one host to another. Thanks velocity, for letting us the know the real story, its really sad & unprofessional approach from such a reputed hosting company. I will avoid that reputed company in future, for sure. Hope you'll manage everything soon. Our best wishes are with you.