How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes • Hacker News Board

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by markwakeford » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 2:55 AM UTC

Pretty fulfilling recovery ? Well done maplebed, lesson learnt and problem resolved.

My least proudest moment quote a while ago was when I realised I just binned a directory I had been writing some code in few files in it, But had them all open in an editor. Recreated the directory and hit save in each tab. phew, disaster avoided

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by hackula1 » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 3:00 AM UTC

I have lost a couple blogs over the years, mostly out of laziness, letting them expire. I got an itch to write some posts recently and wanted to set up a new site. This time around I decided I would do it with something git friendly, so that I could throw it on github and forget about it if I lost interest. I wrote a "from scratch" site with this in mind and it was working well, so I open sourced the core engine today. It runs on express and is about as bare bones as it gets. http://morganherlocker.com/post/badblog

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by HorizonXP » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 3:00 AM UTC

zemo wrote: post #7

HorizonXP wrote: post #6

And a blog requires a Redis back-end because? I've hosted my blog on S3 & CloudFront for a while now without issue. Comments are hosted by Disqus, and the static files are generated using Pelican. Seriously, unless you're using your blog as a massive CMS, why not use static files?

this is the blog of the guy that wrote Redis.

Well then that's somewhat acceptable. Somewhat.

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by grecy » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 3:02 AM UTC

mmm. I have 242 posts published on my blog, with over 3000 moderated comments. I'd rather not have to copy-paste all that back in.

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by hackula1 » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 3:05 AM UTC

I got distracted and was looking at your other posts, when I noticed that the 5 or so I had looked at all said "1 day ago". I thought you must be a lunatic until I actually went back and read this post and saw that your dates had been lost. :)

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by oinksoft » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 3:46 AM UTC

HorizonXP wrote: post #6

And a blog requires a Redis back-end because? I've hosted my blog on S3 & CloudFront for a while now without issue. Comments are hosted by Disqus, and the static files are generated using Pelican. Seriously, unless you're using your blog as a massive CMS, why not use static files?

Agreed, I'm moving my small website to a bash static generator right now. But I'm not so sure about hosting comments with somebody like Disqus. Better to host and moderate them yourself, or skip them altogether.

You could do a lot worse than Redis for a blog's data store though. It's simple, fast, persistent, and easy to set up.

It's weird that the author lost his blog data from a reboot. Maybe he lost his Linode? It a bummer that he didn't have a recent backup of the redis database. Recovering a blog from Google's web cache doesn't sound like fun.

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by chc » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 4:04 AM UTC

HorizonXP wrote: post #6

And a blog requires a Redis back-end because? I've hosted my blog on S3 & CloudFront for a while now without issue. Comments are hosted by Disqus, and the static files are generated using Pelican. Seriously, unless you're using your blog as a massive CMS, why not use static files?

> Seriously, unless you're using your blog as a massive CMS, why not use static files?

Because regenerating the whole site all the time and manually uploading is annoying?

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by gamache » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 4:41 AM UTC

HorizonXP wrote: post #13

zemo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is the blog of the guy that wrote Redis.

Well then that's somewhat acceptable. Somewhat.

Oh, admit it. Antirez wrote a hell of a blogging platform.

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by etler » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 4:42 AM UTC

What I love about Jekyll and Github pages is I get all the backup that git provides. The likelyhood of me losing my hard drive data and Github losing my data at the same time are nil.

Re: How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

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Post by autotravis » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 4:43 AM UTC

chc wrote: post #17

HorizonXP wrote: post #6

And a blog requires a Redis back-end because? I've hosted my blog on S3 & CloudFront for a while now without issue. Comments are hosted by Disqus, and the static files are generated using Pelican. Seriously, unless you're using your blog as a massive CMS, why not use static files?

> Seriously, unless you're using your blog as a massive CMS, why not use static files? Because regenerating the whole site all the time and manually uploading is annoying?

because `./build.py; rsync -r site/ site.com:~/site/` is easy?