So about a month and a half ago I’m playing around inside my Dreamhost control panel, and happen to be playing with the Web Major domain.  I was checking out the “host with google” option and decided to give it a whirl.

This was before all the shiny warning messages came up, I guess it was when the process was new.

I clicked “DO THIS NOW MAN” or whatever it says in the control panel, checked out my site and this blog was gone.  Poof.

Now normally it wouldn’t be the end of the world.  Reinstall Wordpress, grab the latest database backup, throw it in, reinstall the custom theme, and done.  That would be easy.  If I had a database backup or a copy of the theme.  I didn’t, so I threw my hands up and forgot about it for a little while.

Today I decided to fix the site and get it back up and running.  Went into the control panel, switched back to the Dreamhost “fully hosted” plan and waited for DNS to propegate. After about an hour I checked the site and the whole blog was back!

Turns out, if you move your hosting to fully Google, everything you still had on DH’s servers is still there waiting for you.  It’s just a DNS propegation.  Now, that’s not to say that after xxx amount of time of inactivity they don’t purge your old files, maybe I just got lucky.  But I’m glad I did.