On Blog? Blog On!

Sniff. Sniff. Cautiously peeking out of the CogDogBlog that seems to be back in working operation after a broken period. The on switch is on, as if anyone noticed. It was an extended period of seeing the trusty old blog respond with “Error Establishing Database Connection.” I started to write out all the steps I went through, but it was even boring me. The short version starts the incredibly human and thorough support of Chris at Reclaim Hosting I shedded old unsupported plugins My old database had issues of language sets / collation (?terminology) that came up as errors, and also I know was a long running into MAJOR problems in that commenters who used emojis saw them rendered as “??” My research on fixing made me dizzy at the prospect. Chris went in command line and fixed that old issue. I had not optimized my database in eons, in fact I had to learn the magic link to find PHPMyAdmin in Reclaim Cloud (find the ****.reclaim.cloud url for your site and apppend :8443 to it) (I did…