Ahh ok ok, I was honestly thinking about responding to Johns original reply thanking him for taking me seriously, even though I am a "marijuana enthusiast." Obviously I would have spoken too soon
No I was not stoned... well I probably was stoned when my site went down, but it was not the reason. I had set-up my forum on a free hosting company, I figured because marijuana is quickly becoming legalized for medicinal use in more and more states that it wouldn't violate their "illegal content" rule. Unfortunately for me, it did, and being a free account I was not given a luxurious warning period to transfer.
Although being stoned was definitely the reason it took a week to get my site back up. I was quite inebriated when I didn't take someones recommendation to do a phpMyAdmin backup for my database, I opted for the alternate backup from within the forum admin. My server apparently timed out on every backup I made except for the first one ever. So I had to reconfigure with an ancient database.
The MySQL errors came from my mad attempts to fix up some of the incomplete databases. Ultimately I was able to get a backup of my information back from my old web host (which was amazingly nice of them, especially after the words I had for them after my site went down (oops))
Just to finish up here and explain myself. I am definitely a marijuana user, but I also like to consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. I decided to start studying computers and thought making a website would be a great hands on learning experience. I wanted to make a site about something I knew a lot about so it would be easier to make content for. That way I could focus on the technical aspect of web design.
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