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?
That is SO fantastic that your blog has grown so much to have these kinds of problems…. Unfortunately, I cannot help you though, sorry.
oh girl we feel your pain!! we have been having issues with our blog too, two months ago it just stopped showing up in google reader. for about two weeks till people starting saying stuff. so we looked into and have no idea why it happened. still have no idea why. we spent a good month trying everything in the book to fix it. and we couldn’t, so we made a new feed for our blog. so having to start from square one with our readership. it sucks, so many people have no idea we are still blogging. crazy, but the joys of technology I guess.
best of luck to you and if we come across anything we will let you know!
Ugh oh my word that’s horrible!! Did you ask any tech-savvy people if they could figure it out? Do you know Cory, of zestycook? He is always SO incredibly helpful to me!
It looks much better! I totally understand (I don’t feel clueless, but I know I am haha). Looking forward to the next recipe!
I had no problems while reading your blog during the last weeks. But I have problems with my own computer at the moment ans I’m clueless about it! So I really hear you! 🙂 I’ll try your chocolate chip blondies now. Yeah!
I saw it all messed up a few days ago, but looks good now! I know nothing about computers. What DOES html stand for?
I’m pretty sure all your readers understand how hard it can be to manage a popular blog, just be thrilled that you have so many readers who enjoy your yummy-healthy recipes! I don’t really know much about computers, though I pretend to sometimes… 🙂
I was thinking about this all day yesterday! We must have ESP. 😉
The number one thing that surprised me about blogging is just that – how much TECHNICAL stuff goes into it! Like yourself, I’m clueless with computers. Thankfully, we can research topics and how-to’s. Congrats on your increase in traffic, though, Katie! That is really amazing and you absolutely deserve all the success that comes your way! <3
Hey,
I just discovered your site a while ago and I decided to read ALL your previous posts! and now when I got to June 2010, there are a few links that don’t work for me (I get the 404): the post from June 18th (3-ingredient Coffee Ice Cream) and the one from the 11th (Your Perfect Diet Plan).
Now I don’t know if these link normally work or not, I just remembered this post about errors on the site and thought I’d post it just in case.
I really love your blog by the way, when I read food blogs I tend to bookmark 1-2 reciped but with your blog I basically bookmark them all (it only happened ONCE before yours)!!! 😉
Uh oh… so you can’t see the following link: https://lett-trim.today/2010/06/11/vegan-chocolate-covered-banana/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> Yup, that’s not supposed to be the case. I still see those posts :(. Thanks for letting me know! And also, thank you for such sweet words!
Actually, after I posted the comment I tried again and they worked. Both of them. Now there’s one that doesn’t work: “Peanut Butter and Honey are sooo over”, from Sept. 2010. So I guess it’s not always the same links that don’t work, it’s always different ones… It’s one of those weird computer problems I never seem to understand…
Katie,
I didn’t take the time to read through your 70+ comments, so this might be a repeat. BUT isn’t so awesome where ideas and passion take us sometime? What we learn in the process? New people we interact with and new skills we learn? Life is amazing and it is even better when we grab it by the horns (like you) and reach another level!! Great job running this blog, my family (4 small, 2 big) love all the things we have tried!! Keep on growing and creating!!
Agreed! It’s so funny that one of the classes I most dreaded taking in high school (a course to fulfill a technology requirement) turned out to be the course I use every single day! Be open to learning new things; you never know when you might need the knowledge, even if it seems pointless at the time! 😉
I dont know how you keep up! Im horrible with computer and technical stuff.