NZB3: Blog Block

4/05/2006

 

Blog Block


This blog is powered by Blogger. They've got a great package that makes blogging easy and they let we many and various bloggers use it for free. I deduce they're getting something of value for themselves out of this act of global internet benevolence.

Being that it's free it's hard to complain, so we haven't (not that 5days of being unable to blog is much of an inconvenience to co-blogger Dominic!). Since April 1st the NZB3 blog and several dozen others at least have been unable to publish. I know Blogger are messing with their equipment. A couple weeks back Blogger blogs were having trouble adding pictures. So, I thought, lets just ride it out and it'll be fixed tomorrow.

Five tomorrows latter: this philosophy has failed.

Seems that only blogs that publish to their own servers are effected. Therefore, I have moved NZB3 onto blogspot.com hosting until this crisis has ended. We're back in business, you'll barely notice the changes but for one.

The feed wont be the same. There is a blogspot hosted feed now which is working, whereas the old one will not be. But I don't want to go advertising the fact since all this is temporary and we'll be back on our own server soon (right Blogger? right?) and back to normal.

The silver lining of all this is that it shows that Silent Running Murray has been shown to read NZB3 and misses it when it is gone! He's a very important person. We must not fail him.

Comments:
Um - how do you move onto blogspot.com then?
 
In Blogger settings go to the publishing tag.

You see you can choose from FTP (which you have now if this is your problem), SFTP or Blogger.

You might like to take down your ftp log-in details at this point, before they're wiped.

But simply choose the Blogspot host and republish. Everything works again.

Previous posts will source pictures and files from your server.

And when this crap is over we can all move back. Mean time, blog on!
 
Hi there,
I publish all my posts on blogspot, and my posts won't publish either...am I cursed?
 
Sorry Hooker, you're well and truely venerially cursed.

The solution I've found only applies to those who host their own site.

Guess the Blogger lads have more than one thing going wrong at a time. Who'd'a thunk it?
 
Best regards from NY!
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