Coded Preview

Coded Preview Back Online!

14-05-2009

Hi Everyone,

Coded Preview, as I am sure you all know, has been down for ages. A long, long time.
During this time, I have been trying to retrieve all of the old preview files before switching the site over to the new server.

It’s a pretty complicated story, but in the end, I wasn’t able to retrieve all of the previews, I’m afraid. I was only able to retrieve those that were created before the last backup I took. Everything after that has gone. Not that you’ll have missed them anyway… the site’s been down long enough.
If I had known I would lose those files in the first place, I would have switched the site over straight away without them, but I tried everything I could to get them (with the belief I eventually would) and in the end, didn’t. I had no way of knowing. Even my old host didn’t know if I could get them, it was a case of “you’ll just have to renew the old hosting and see if it’s still on there”. The reason that took so long, was due to a series of very long dialogues between myself and my old host, by the way.

But, at least the site is back and you can recreate your previews. I had some updates coming too, but the programmer did a runner - it hasn’t been going that well with Coded Preview, as you can tell! Everything should be good to go, but I have noticed a few small errors which are being seen to.

So, I am sorry for the incredible downtime and the loss of files. Some of them are still here, but at least the site is back up.

Looking forward to hopefully continuing this site positively. Thanks for all the emails and concerns about the site, and if you are reading this, thanks for still coming back despite everything!

All the best,

Seb