I previously mentioned that i made a website for Unified Hospice Care. Out of the blue, the website just stopped working. For no logical reason. 404 error. So i chatted with godaddy’s tech guy and told me that the DNS somehow isn’t attaching to the website. The domain was registered from Google Domains, the emails associated with it was gsuite and it was through google business account. The email accounts were created first before the website was up because the client needed a reliable email service. So anyways…. the emails also stopped working. Somehow, godaddy wasn’t able to help since the DNS, MX, and whatever is needed isn’t showing up in my dashboard. Since the emails were more important than the website…. well, hospice patients’ needs can not wait on any form of propagation, so we decided to revert the DNS back to google and figure it out later. OR just recreate the content or whatever. This was Wednesday.
Thursday, I decided to go check out Google’s free website that came with the business account. Then i realized why i had to take the website to my godaddy hosting in the first place. It had a limited WIX website builder and a wordpress would require hosting with bluehost. I didn’t like WIX to begin with… i created a website before using WIX when they were just new. It wasn’t my favorite, but it was a working website. Long story short…. i found wix to be so limiting and it was frustrating KNOWING i can do this and that easily in wordpress. But, i still tried . I told myself that sooner or later, i will be using WIX anyways, might as well learn. HOWEVER, i couldn’t access the wp dashboard to copy the text, the files were inaccessible without the wordpress. We were doing this on the fly and making changes and revisions so many times that it was impossible for me to recreate. i gave up. And i am used to using wordpress at work that i just had to create this in wordpress.
I DIDN'T WANT TO REBUILD A WHOLE F*ING WEBSITE.
Saturday, i tried changing the nameservers again…. and hoping it was just a fluke. And after a few minutes, saw propagation started already but of course, we still had to wait. 2 hours into it, the emails stopped working again. Godaddy tech people just can’t help me anymore because it is not their fault it wasn’t transferring over. So i called google so they can guide me and that probably i missed something. It was screen sharing and he can actually see what i am seeing and HE FOUND IT ABSURD even that everything is what is was supposed to be and yet is wasn’t working. He asked if i can patch him with a godaddy tech guy so they can discuss what is happening. So i did, and i thought it was hilarious. But i guess, they do this all the time. So both of them gave up as well. They can’t do anything. Google guy just conceded, i guess. Ball was on their side of the court. Wasn’t godaddy’s fault.
So we reverted back the DNS. The emails need to work.
So, client suggested a BRILLIANT IDEA. Just get another domain name from godaddy. SOLVED. Godaddy peeps sent me all this HOW-TO links, proper way to FTP transfer this to that… etc.
I also did my own research… maybe i can just change the URL of the old website. But can’t access the wp-admin to do that. They are also not recommending messing with the php files if you are not a real pro (which i am totally not). Well, I just have to transfer the website content to the new URL. PROPER WAY TO DO IT is download/backup website A, download the database… and then upload to target website B. i did all that. i followed all the steps without skipping any. Didn’t work.
At that point, i should just be able to edit some… i forgot what. hahaha. But no… didn’t work.
AND THEN… I SAW CLONE as an option in cpanel. WHAT THE…
insert Imperial song by John Williams here…
In less than 30 minutes. No, maybe 10. Fine, in less than 20 minutes. the site was up with the same content. All the links worked. Everything worked. It even changed the website URL by itself. WHAT THE F*#$@. I was with godaddy tech guys the whole day who PROMISED to help me but just gave me links after links of how to do it. Are they not supposed to tell me JUST CREATE A CLONE!??
Anyways… i have been having this recurring dreams of making a post but won’t publish properly because the post page can’t be edited with elementor. Here’s another whine: WHY WOULDN’T ELEMENTOR FIX THEIR POST PAGE THAT WOULD WORK WITH WORDPRESS? It has been a longstanding BUG that they were not fixing. They blame wordpress, actually. The other pages work just fine…but not the POST page. You have to go around to get some blogging content in there. It’s beyond me, really.