Hosting Company Redesigned Website – Lost Blog

  • My website is hosted on Yahoo Small Business which came with a www.ads-software.com blog as part of the website package back in 2010. I recently had Yahoo redesign my website (I had designed the first one). During the redesign, they have LOST my blog (error 404).
    I no longer have access to the backend of the blog, which I did until June 2021. Yahoo started the redesign work in April and just finished…with the missing blog. They were supposed to keep a link to the blog.
    Yahoo is now asking me for the URL, which Yahoo originally set up with www.ads-software.com in 2010. I have the words to the URL, but of course, they go nowhere.
    Can anyone here help me retrieve 11 years of blog posts? Or send me some kind of tech support documents I can send them? I’ve searched the documentation and forums and found information about changing a URL, but I don’t know if that will help. Thank you, and sorry for the long explanation.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    You need to ask the folks at Yahoo what they did? Did they replace WP with something else? Did they remove your database? https://believinginhorses.com/ still exists and is still a WP site.

    What do you have under SETTINGS->READING as your blog page?

    Just a too little, too late comment but no one here recommends Yahoo Small Business for WP hosting.

    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    is there any possibility the “blog” was actually set up on WordPress.com instead of www.ads-software.com?

    Thread Starter believinginhorses

    (@believinginhorses)

    @sterndata –

    Thank you very much, and I have asked Yahoo repeatedly what they did. I get the runaround, they tell me “not to worry,” and that it will all work out. I’m not sure they know what they did.
    Yes, the existing WP site is the website they created for me from a former Yahoo Site Solution site that Yahoo said they were soon no longer going to support.
    Here is what it says under SETTINGS>READING:
    `Reading Settings
    Your homepage displays Your homepage displays
    Your latest posts
    A static page (select below)
    ? Homepage:
    ? Posts page:

    Blog pages show at most posts
    Syndication feeds show the most recent items
    For each post in a feed, include For each post in a feed, include
    Full text
    Summary
    Your theme determines how content is displayed in browsers. Learn more about feeds.

    Search engine visibility Search engine visibility Discourage search engines from indexing this site
    It is up to search engines to honor this request.
    And yes, unfortunately I have been feeling the pain with Yahoo Small Business for web hosting. Problem is, I had so much set up with them since 2010 (email accounts for my books out in many, many places), that is was going to be very hard to switch. Lesson learned.

    @contentiskey
    Thank you, but no, the blog was set up on www.ads-software.com.

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