The old blogspot blog spot
Yesterday this blog went down briefly. I hope none of you had too much trouble getting here. If it happens more often, I will be needing to up my bandwidth. But for now it’s not been all that much of a problem, except on rare occasions.
But during the down time, a reader kindly alerted me to the fact that my old blog—I mean my old old old blog, the one with the “blogspot” URL that I abandoned in 2007 but still use as emergency backup—has been unceremoniously dismantled by Blogger.
Maybe that happens automatically after a certain time of relative inactivity, although I see plenty of other old blogs still on Blogger/blogspot. At any rate, it happened to mine, and I was never informed so I’m not sure when it happened or why.
One other thing they did, strangely enough, was to keep just a couple of much more recent posts up, but at a different URL which they assigned to the blog. So I thought I’d let you know that, in case of some sort of downage on the present WordPress blog (the one you’re reading right now). Please mark the following URL as the one to go to for backup in a situation like that: https://neoneoneocon.blogspot.com/
Note that the new name there is “neoneoneocon”—three “neo”s—so apparently they decided to add one “neo” to my old “neo-neocon” appellation, and remove any hyphens.
Interesting.
You reminded me I had an old blogspot url. I checked it out, it’s still there and redirects to my current one. I can’t imagine what happened with yours.
I do have another blog for my herb club, linked with a different google account. It is used three or four times a year. Maybe that is what made the difference.
I’ve been getting “Error 502 Bad Gateway” messages when trying to visit you ever since the name-change and maybe before; but not very often, though more often recently. Is that what you mean by saying your site is “down”?
Probably 80% of the time, refreshing the page or opening a new tab with the site’s URL takes me right to you. Once in awhile it takes longer, so I go visit somebody else for awhile.
I run into this on other sites as well.
You and almost certainly your web manager are aware of the points in this howtogeek article, but maybe your other readers would like to read it also. Anyway, FWIW:
https://www.howtogeek.com/356389/what-is-a-502-bad-gateway-error-and-how-can-i-fix-it/
Also, the Wayback Machine has snaps of the old neoneocon.com site going clear back to your first WP posting, in March of 2007.
And I’ve bookmarked the triple-neo alternate site. Thanks!