If you are a regular visitor of Blogging Cage then you must have seen that my blog was down from last 2 days. And seriously these two days were the worst days in my blogging journey. I spent two sleepless nights and spent almost 17 hours a day on blog to revert back in correct position.
Blog is our child and we cannot see it in any bad condition and same thing happened with me also, as I was too much worried that whether it is going to revert back on not.
Here is complete story why this mess happened.
On Wednesday I login in my cPanel and saw that I was getting some warnings and errors in my dashboard. As all normal bloggers I also got worried about what is happening and what is wrong with my account. Then after analyzing I saw that the number of files I was using at HostGator hosting were more then they recommended. They allow us 100,000(Files) and I was using more then that because my other 21 blogs are hosted at same account.
So I decided to move Blogging Cage from that account to another HostGator account because this is the biggest blog among all my blogs. With this decision I created a ticket in HostGator to do transfer for me and they started the work on Thursday.
After they did the complete transfer they replied me back with the successful transfer but when I changed my namesevers everything was in mess at new hosting. So without even a small delay I contacted them on chat and asked them to solve my issue.
You all will be surprise to hear that I talked with 5 different representative during the day and none of them was able to resolve the issue.
This was the worst feeling that if world’s best hosting support is not able to solve my issue then who will solve. So this increased my worries also.
So I started spending time with my blog and finding out the problem by reverting the process. I tried almost all combination with plugins and themes but problem was still there.
So what was the reason actually?
After I did experiments with all plugin I found that the culprit was W3 Total Cache and CDN part in that plugin mainly. When I was enabling cdn then everything was going in mess and when I was disabling then images were not showing.
So I concentrated on correcting CDN first and then other issues.
How Problem was resolved?
The big mistake I did (which HostGator people were unable to find) was I didn’t configured CDN at new hosting and the IP address of the new hosting was not whitelisted in the MaxCDN dashborad so they were unable to install CDN at my blog.
I analyzed the IPs and then configured them on MaxCDN dashboard and added CNAME at my hosting as well with the proper address.
After configuring CDN and setting CNAME at hosting I started analyzing http://www.whatsmydns.net/#CNAME/cdn1.bloggingcage.com so that I can know when my setting will propagate across all the servers. Once this was propagated successfully then I saw that the problem was resolved.
And another small mistake I was doing that at MaxCDN side I was using wrong ORIGIN IP.
SO with my efforts my blog was finally back after 2 days of mess and I am very happy with my work. Thanks for spending time on reading my real life event, so I would like to hear from you also that what do you feel.
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About Kulwant Nagi
Kulwant Nagi is a 25 years old Full-Time Blogger from Haryana, India. He Loves to write about SEO, WordPress and Blogging. Blogging Cage is a webmasters blog where you will learn blogging and SEO Tips. 
Omg it is so sad story kulwant bro i never suppose to host on hostgator i support bluehost is best
Pardeep, i am on HostGator from the start but they are worst after they have been occupied with another company.
Glad you resolved it quickly
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Many thanks for pointing out my mistake. I will take care this in future. I was writing in flow and never noticed that this mistake can make negative impact. Thanks for helping me to write quality content in future.
Great job done kulwant. I am also running a blog and I can understand the situation of a blogger when his blog is in problem. best of luck bloggingcage for future.
kerry tiwana
Thanks for your wishes Kerry.
Sorry to hear about your problems, Kulwant! I had a similar situation a few months ago with my domain registrar, domain.com, when i tried to change nameservers. Something went wrong when I tried to update the nameservers in my domain.com admin and they didnt respond to emails or Facebook comments in 3 days. Horrible! Anyway, glad you fixed it!
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Rick, our little mistakes make situations worse. We must consult before taking any serious action.
And I would like to welcome you on my blog.
I had a similar issue with W3 last year.. Ever since I’ve only used Super-Cache plugin. It’s simple and it works. Also make sure you strip down whatever is un-necessary. Cheers and happy blogging once again!
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Very happy to see you at my blog after long time. I also tried Super-Cache plugin but the problem was still there.
Thank you for sharing that blog problem Kulwant and for letting us know that you resolved it.
It’s really good to take note of these things cos we may encounter this problem later on!
Danyelle That was the prime reason for sharing this incident. I want that my fellow bloggers can also resolve the problem if they have such issue i future. Thanks for stopping by and dropping comment.
Oh! thats was very tough 2 days for you I guess.
Thanks for sharing this with us, now I have to be alert about these mistakes.
~@khajamoin1
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You can understand how i would have spent those 2 days.
Come to blogger. You will never have any technical issue
Happy to see BC live again
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ha ha !! Nice suggestion Gappu.
HI
How do you take backups of your website?
And also please suggest me where to download professional themes for free.
Regards
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Harish, you can use this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dbmanager/
This will do backup on daily basis and send them to your specified mail. You will have to do all settings first.
And for themes you can go to http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
WordPress Repository have many awesome themes.