Sorry for the downtime!
What a time to have my website go down, right in the middle of a bloghop/giveaway, huh?
Basically what happened is that back in January, I migrated my hosting from BlueHost back over to blogspot, since...you know, blogspot is free. (More than that, I missed blogspot's editing capabilities for layouts.) I had switched my domain name over to redirect here, and all was working fine.
Until yesterday. My BlueHost hosting expired at the beginning of February, and I guess a task must have run to delete my control panel and blah blah blah. Long story short, I hadn't realized websites consisted of THREE elements: (1) Hosting, (2) domain registration and (3) DNS server (or whatever it's called). Number three I hadn't known about, and had no idea how to get. BlueHost basically said I needed to have my hosting through them if I wanted it to work again, and I was Not Okay with that.
Instead, thanks to several handy tutorials, I found a free DNS service called ClouDNS. It took me a number of hours to figure out how to set everything up and then...it still wasn't working. It said I might need to wait up to 48 hours for the changes to kick in, which seemed strange because when I did my rerouting stuff before, it took maybe an hour, tops.
Aaaanyway...the point being, the site was down and now it's not, and I'm sorry! There's still a day left in the Crazy Stupid Love bloghop giveaway, so make sure you jump in and enter!
Basically what happened is that back in January, I migrated my hosting from BlueHost back over to blogspot, since...you know, blogspot is free. (More than that, I missed blogspot's editing capabilities for layouts.) I had switched my domain name over to redirect here, and all was working fine.
Until yesterday. My BlueHost hosting expired at the beginning of February, and I guess a task must have run to delete my control panel and blah blah blah. Long story short, I hadn't realized websites consisted of THREE elements: (1) Hosting, (2) domain registration and (3) DNS server (or whatever it's called). Number three I hadn't known about, and had no idea how to get. BlueHost basically said I needed to have my hosting through them if I wanted it to work again, and I was Not Okay with that.
Instead, thanks to several handy tutorials, I found a free DNS service called ClouDNS. It took me a number of hours to figure out how to set everything up and then...it still wasn't working. It said I might need to wait up to 48 hours for the changes to kick in, which seemed strange because when I did my rerouting stuff before, it took maybe an hour, tops.
Aaaanyway...the point being, the site was down and now it's not, and I'm sorry! There's still a day left in the Crazy Stupid Love bloghop giveaway, so make sure you jump in and enter!
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