Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining!

Just as I was putting the finishing touches to my niche site that I plan on selling yesterday, something really strange happened. I'm not sure what it was exactly but it wiped out my entire site. I was so mad and annoyed I couldn't bear to look at the computer screen for at least an hour.

When I had finaly calmed down I reinstalled wordpress, only to find out that I could only install the older version of wordpress, and that I needed to upgrade it.

I was sat there for well over two hours trying to figure out how to update to the new version of wordpress. The longer I was sat there the more frustrated I was getting. I really couldn't imagine what the hell I had done wrong for this to happen to me.

To cut a long story short, in the end I finaly managed to reinstall wordpress, and upgrade it to the latest version. Of course all my hard work was lost, BUT....WOW the latest version of wordpress is just awesome.

So even though I lost all of my hard work, if this hadn't of happened I would never of upgraded my wordpress installation, and this may have caused me problems when it comes to selling the site.

So really the moral of the story is if sometimes things don't seem to be going your way, don't give up hope, sometimes these things happen for a reason. I think you need to have this attitude especialy in this business, because if you give up everytime something bad happens you will never get anywhere in life.

P.S. The other moral of the story is to always always back up your work, if you are using wordpress like me then here is a handy plugin to back up all your files. I will definately be using this from now on :).

http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/