You might be wondering what happen to me, why I am not posting from a quite few days. Ya that’s strange isn’t it. But before publishing any posts I wanted to share what happened with my blog. Really it was very scary.

Well I was doing some modification on my web hosting account on 24th April around 8 pm. While doing work on cpanel, I mistakenly hit the delete (remove) button of this blog. Oh my god, what the hell I did, my blog was gone, it was deleted. what I am going to do now. All my lovely posts and comments were gone. Dude I am screwed. My heart was beating fast; I was really scared what to do now. Then I thought of restoring my blog but how, is it possible to restore the deleted blog? Well that was tough question, I was asking myself.

Before going through the restoring process, I thought of my regular visitors, what will happen if they visit my blog and the blog doesn’t exist. Surely if they found out, they’ll never come back again. This was haunting me a lot. So idea caught me and I created a new blog within second in the same domain name through fantastico from cpanel and put the blog in the maintenance mode so that my dear regular visitors might think that I am going through some internal work on my blog but the truth was, you guys know that the blog was empty without any posts because the earlier blog was deleted, I did this just to save myself and reputation But Why am I revealing this, am I nerd, why am I making laugh of myself. No I am not, I am sharing this because it might also happen with you. This mistake can happen with anyone, If you experience this, then the steps taken by me might help you out, if you don’t know what path to follow because this mistake was not intentional, it was by chance.

Before going further, It’s better to tell you that this blog is powered by wordpress and hosted in ewebguru. So basically the wordpress users will be of more benefit.

Now let’s come to my blog saver process. Well that night itself on 24th April, I contacted one of the employer of my web hosting company through yahoo messenger and told him the whole story and he reassured me that the deleted blog can be restore. Wow I was happy. He told me to download the daily backup file through cpanel in my web hosting account and restored it, after that he went offline. I downloaded the daily backup file and tried to restore it but couldn’t follow the correct steps so it was hopeless to try without any help, I started googling, got many information through forums that blog deleted can be restored only through web hosting. Is it true, I really don’t know the answer yet.

I was having sleepless night. I couldn’t contact them on 25th April due to some work. So next day on 26th April, I contacted and he told me to upload the daily backup file through ftp account, I did that and he tried to restore it but hell it didn’t work, there was lot of error, now he guided me to upload the weekly backup, I did that also but that also didn’t work because weekly backup are taken on every Saturday morning since 26th was Saturday. it overwrite the existing files. So guys there was only one option left and that was the monthly backup. Monthly backup are normally taken on April 2 (it might change from web hosting company to company), so there was possibility and we did that and it work, the blog was restored to April 2 but what was the use of it because my blog was started on April 1 so no benefit of monthly backup.

My web hosting company tried every possible help but it didn’t work out. Still I was very disturbed because I couldn’t restore the current blog with all the posts. For a moment I tried to freshen myself, have a coke and went to friends room and enjoyed the day. In the evening I ask myself is there any more possibility, might be can’t say properly. I was having daily wordpress backup file, those who use wordpres they may know that wordpress have the backup facility. But I thought this might not help me because the size of the file was only143Kb

I thought of giving a try and you know what it really work for me. Here are the steps taken to restore my deleted blog.

1. I created a new wordpress blog in the same domain name and installed the same template which I was using when the blog was deleted. OK blog was created now. So how to bring my posts and comments back.
2. What I did is I opened the phpMyAdmin from cpanel.
3. There I selected the wordpress database and choose the Import tab.
4. Through Import tab, I uploaded the wordpress backup file of 23th april.
5. Bravo, I restored all my posts and comments of the blog.
6. But after restoring still there was a problem, all the posts and comments link was not working.
7. So again I took the help of my web hosting, they told me to change the property of .htaccess file to 777 and it work.
8. At last my blog was restored. Really it was horrible experience but I did learned a lot of new techniques through these whole struggle to restore the deleted blog.

I though that all of my subscribed readers number might decrease a lot but to my surprise it drop only by 25%. I thanks all the readers who still stick with my blog and all new visitors are always welcome to my blog.

Have a nice day!!!

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What is the Need of Blogging?

Well I have already written a post on the Introduction to Basic Blogging. Let us see the broader use of blogging.

So what is blog?

If you have read my earlier post then you already know its answer anyway Blog in brief is normally defined as “online diary” or “journals”. Blogs are nowadays normally monetized and commercialized for feeding their appetite, that’s another thing; I will cover these stuffs later.

Why do We Blog and Are Blog Useful to us?

Blogging can be of anything, it’s about the author or writer behind the blog. Blog is a reflection of you and it is how it should be.

When you come to this site, it clearly states this is a place where I share my computing tips and tricks along with blogging tutorials for beginners and other stuffs with you.

My blog is reflection of me, I have full control over it, and I can do whatever I want. I don’t need to be liked, nor can I always express happiness.

Let me try and explain with an example How Blog are useful to us. I have come across many people who used to copy their notes, projects and other important data for future reference. They do things like

1. Note down in the notebook.

2. Zip it and send themself a mail.

3. Burn it in a CD., etc.

Whenever you learn something new or come across any new topic which you feel would be use in future then I suggest you to blog about it. Down the line in a year or so if you look back there would be decent collection of information’s which would be useful for you in future as well as for others.

Not only that, whatever you feel would be useful can be blog here rather than just adding it to your browsers favorites, bookmarking or scribbling it in a notepad. As this would be long lasting.

Other way to look at, it is almost always we learn most of the stuff from internet. Shouldn’t it be nice if we start giving back or contributing to it?

Don’t get me wrong. I am not talking only about technical bloggers. Even a non-techie guy can blog it.

Also read how JP Rangaswami benefitted from blogging.

And why Mike Kavis started blogging.

And What Amit Agarwal feels about blogging.

don’t forget to read Top 10 reasons to blog and Top 10 not to blog. Although some points are not useful but worth reading.

Why do you (or don’t) blog?

Today I advice everyone I meet to blog. Sometimes it seems like I am a big mouth since I am only 1 year old in this blogging world.

But see in another way, it is an indication of the experience and value I have learned in this short period. It has been a wonderful learning journey and a lot of struggle but many of them with fruitful results.

There are lot of articles and posts about why one should blog, but believe me no one can tell you exactly what you will gain from it. It is you to realize it.

Let me mention some important points about why we should blog?

1. I have realized that writing on a particular topic helps me understand or think better and deeper, which is what I am doing as I am writing this.

2. Every blogger has his/her own unique creative which lets them invent their own way of blogging which has evolved into podcasting, photo-blogging or video blogging. Blogging is the best place to express yourself.

3. Blogging platform has a great feature called archiving which is somewhat like library where your all posts are kept in chronological order to which you can always revisit them whenever you want. It has helped me realized that I have learned many things and matured.

4. Blogging lets me have conversion with you. i.e., with people whom I have never made irrespective of race, religion, language, lifestyle and profession.

5. Another aspect of the conversations is to connect with others, which would simply be not possible otherwise. Blogging is discovery vehicle that introduce me to new people of my criteria I want. And very soon, you can build relationship of these, which has brought me in this beautiful blog.

6. Blogging is a tool because of which you can learn many new things, evolve yourself, build relationships and help others learn.

7. And no one can stop you from blogging, if you are interested.

How do you find time to do this? Are you always free?

This is one of the questions many people ask me. Those people have an opinion that people who blog are totally free and jobless J but it’s not true.

Many people are blogging apart from their main works, I am too an engineer student as well as student of NIIT. But Blogging is my passion. Somehow I manage to take time for it.

I normally dedicate 3 to 4 hours in a day to blog as well as to read others blog. It boils down to how well we manage our time.

Mind you, starting a blog is pretty easy but maintaining it is tough. We need to keep reading and update ourself with the latest happenings in our field.

Reading others blog? How to do you keep track of whose blog to read etc.

There are quite a few tools available on the web which would help one in managing this. For example, there is a site called Bloglines (there are numerous RSS/ATOM feed readers like this in the web. Google too also has one by name Google Reader.) Where we could register for free and just add the path of all the feeds of those blogs which you feel like reading. If at all you want to add me to your list… this is my RSS feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/GedetBasumataryDotCom

This way, you just need to login into one single site where you could read all posts from all the blogs of your choice. Easy isn’t it.

How do you know what and what not to blog?

These are few basic steps which I take care while blogging. Just see whether this would be of use to you.

1. I would suggest you stay away from blogging about your company or the project you do at present. I have read enough about those who have lost their jobs just because of blogging or cribbing about their company.

2. Be yourself. Don’t start blogging something for the sake of others. People are there to know what you personally feel about a situation or an issue.

3. Create your own style of bloggin or in other words try and be unique. I know it’s pretty though. Still no harm in giving a try.

How to handle a readers comments?

Go through all the comments and give importance to both type of comments i.e., Positive as well as Negative comments.

Getting a Positive comment is lucky thing and it is easy to handle it.

But Negative comment is also not a bad thing. It’s an indication of growth. It encourage discussions. Never flame the reader if he/she flames you. if you do then there might be great loss for you in terms of traffic.

Now, if any of you get thoughts about blogging for nanoseconds, I would consider this post has achieved its aim. What are you waiting for, be the first one to start because Sometimes Never Comes.