WARNING: Reports of legitimate Blogger/Blogspot accounts being deleted without cause
Sunday, December 11th, 2005 at
12:42 pm
Filed under: Blogger • blogging • Reviews • Weblogs
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I also offer free WordPress (mu) weblogs with over 100 different themes and the amount is growing;
http://megaweblog.com
The weblogs are hosted on USA servers at a high rank hosting company.
I have my personal weblog for almost 2 year now and know the ins and outs.
see http://usadutch.com/blips (in my native language Dutch)
The warning didn’t come early enough for me. Though I’m very happy with my Typepad Blogs, an earlier blog on blogger bit the dust without notice and I still can’t get an answer from blogger.com – or from their non-existant tech support.
Yes, you can get the details (http://tinyurl.com/dtkey) but if I think about it steam may come out my ears. Arrrgh!
I know – I got what I paid for – free. But it’s still shocking how much that the google/blogger clan doesn;t much give a fig.
This just happened to me and I am very upset. The following blogs were deleted. Gain More Muscle, Weight Loss Ideas That Work, Increased Energy and Vitality, the Unofficial DC Comics Review, Blog Smart Resources Blog, Opportunity Assistance Business Resource Center. These were all hand crafted blogs. Some of them I am repairing with their original URLs. Others have been totally destroyed. Two have the posts as they are hosted elsewhere, but the rest of months of posts totally gone. The comics review one makes me very angry because I had got praise from fellow comic book readers.
Anyway, onward and upward.
Blogger DELETED all of my blogs today! All of them. This is just outrageous that they can do this.
I’ve spent months writing about my online business trials and tribulations and then all of a sudden **POOF** it’s all gone.
Damn, this makes me mad!
Blogger is still at it. I had 5 blogs wiped clean. The only survivors? One blog with one post on it, and thankfully, one I set up to show relatives pictures of my son.
I have a google pr of 4 for my main blog which was full of LEGITIMATE content, created over a long period of time.
I will never host a blogger-type blog, or any other kind of blog, anywhere but on my OWN server… beyond the reach of some teenager sipping Coke and pushing buttons in a Google office somewhere.
Thanks for the warning. Can you tell me please what’s ‘porting your posts’ and how to do it?
Thanks again
I know how much care goes into some peoples personal blogs. It’s often a personal diary. Such a shame to lose such a personal thing. It really does make sense to get your own hosting and domain if you want to feel secure about your blog. Thank god for wordpress.
I am a new blogger and started with Blogger. Terrible place. Nothing worked properly. Couldn’t even find out blog stats. Also, archives section didn’t work. No one replies if you ask a question.
So I shifted to WordPress. Can’t imagine that such a good place exists.
I had a blog hosted by blogger that I used to promote a billiard site. After 16 months of updates and hard work, it is gone. (however it mysteriously remains live, i just cant access it for edits)