{"id":11074,"date":"2019-07-12T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=11074"},"modified":"2019-07-12T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:26:02","slug":"blog-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=11074","title":{"rendered":"'Blog Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/\">DreamHost<\/a>, the hosting service that I use, recently broke this &#39;blog in at least two ways.<\/p> <p>First, they deleted one or more files from my installation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/\">Wordfence<\/a>, which deletion crippled security.  Second, they corrupted the database that underlies the &#39;blog, causing <a href=\"?p=8197\">an old entry on usernames<\/a> to be very imperfectly duplicated, with a date-stamp of 30 June 2019.<\/p> <p>I noticed the problems in the wake of an up-dating of the operating system used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/\">DreamHost<\/a>; I infer that something went wrong in that process.<\/p> <p>I contacted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/\">DreamHost<\/a> and then stewed for some days, leaving things as they were to allow the support staff to set things right.  They repaired the installation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/\">Wordfence<\/a>, offering an implausible conjecture about what had gone wrong.  They did not repair the database appropriately.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DreamHost, the hosting service that I use, recently broke this &#39;blog in at least two ways. First, they deleted one or more files from my installation of Wordfence, which deletion crippled security. Second, they corrupted the database that underlies the &#39;blog, causing an old entry on usernames to be very imperfectly duplicated, with a date-stamp [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-meta","category-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}