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I was 14, just released my first text based game (think simple travian) to the world via national aggregation site (reddit of my nation at the time) got few tho
by ponyous 8y ago
I was 14, just released my first text based game (think simple travian) to the world via national aggregation site (reddit of my nation at the time) got few thousands sign ups and few active players.
I hosted the project on some PHP hosting who's owner was a guy I met while playing online games. I edited and worked on the game live through some editor that offered FTP connections.
Because I was 14 I didn't have a card and I had to go to the post office to make a payment I missed it once and the dude shut my site off immediately & deleted everything. No backups. Since I was editing remotely I didn't have recent backup I had some old copy of the codebase. I never manually backed up the database, I didn't even know what backup was probably... So a game died 2 months after it was launched :(
related memory: I didn't know how to configure a cron job so I asked the dude if he can host me 1 machine open Opera on some url, right click and set "Refresh every 60 seconds" (Versions before 12.00 had that)
- the_clarence 8y agoOn the story of backups, I bought a webcam when I was young and started doing sketchs with my friends. We recorded so many videos, created our own tv shows acted like hosts and so on. later, my computer was not working well with some games, so I asked the place where I bought it to take a look. I came back a few days ago and they told me they had formatted the hard drive. I was like what? All my stuff was on there. I cried so much. Childhood trauma right here. Now I have multiple backups of everything.