Yes, this was me yesterday, definitely!  If you noticed (and you probably did), my website was offline most of yesterday.  Here’s the real story of what happened.  Are you ready?

I woke up, and things were fine.  I was busy posting my “history” post, and things were normal.  It said I needed to update one of my trusted plugins, so I did.  I hit “publish” on my post, and then all you-know-what broke loose!  I went to my website, and all I saw were titles with no posting information!  I did everything I could, and I suspected that the updated plugin did it.  I tried to go to my admin panel on my host server, but I just couldn’t remember what to do.  So I decided to set it aside and come back later.  So I went on with my day.

Following my Bible study yesterday morning, my mom said a call came from hosting company.  I checked my e-mail, and they said they put a temporary block on my account because it took too much “CPU’s.”  In other words, my site was loading too slowly and putting too much strain on their servers.  I got on and chatted with an agent, and they said it should be up and running soon.  They said what plugin I needed to have, and so I went to the store.  The e-mail I received said it was up and running, but it wasn’t!

So I chatted again.  They gave me limited access so I could fix it.  I took all the needed steps, but they said it still wasn’t good enough.  So I deactivated all the plugins, and I found out which one was causing the problem.  Last night, they completely unblocked it, and things are back to normal.  I discovered the slowness in my blog was due to a couple plugins I plan to never use again.  I apologize for the inconvenience, but my site should be running the best it ever has!

You might notice that I don’t have sharing buttons any more.  I plan to find something to take their place (that was one of my plugins that was causing the main problem), and I will not use Jet Pack any longer no matter what!  I appreciate the fact that you guys stuck with me, and I am so glad that my modifications have made things better.  Here’s hoping that my site continues to grow and that things improve immeasurably!

Oh, and by the way, at least I got this up and running much faster than when google deleted my site a few months ago!  It was worthwhile to be able to chat with actual tech people who were able to advise me as to what to do.