Oy vey. Four months ago, we transferred our asklala.com blog from laughingsquid to hostgator. Over the four months, I blogged a few times, and I cancelled my laughingsquid account. It took several months before the account was actually cancelled.

A few days ago, I found out that our blog was off the air! Apparently, we had neglected to switch the DNS to the new host. This meant that my blog entries for the past few months were being posted to the laughingsquid site. — and were lost (deleted) when the account was finally closed.

Luckily, when I googled our site, I found a cached copy of the site that showed the last 10 posts. So I reposted and back dated them to the moved site.

Moral of the story: When you transfer hosts, make sure your transferred site is actually running on your new host!! Don’t count on being able to retrieve files from your previous host. As laughingsquid wrote: “All files, including email, were deleted from the server when the site was deactivated. You’ll need to use your most recent backup you’ve kept personally.”

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