Update Nov 20th: PayPal found in my favor and refunded the hosting fees I’d paid to Heroehost. However, Heroehost didn’t restore access to my accounts as a result. There was a brief window when I had access to Internet Marketing Deals and I was able to download an old backup from Heroehost. When I tried to rebuild the site, I found that some of the database tables were corrupted or damaged and couldn’t get the site back up. The blog … 
On my Night Sky Observer website, I’ve found that the WP-DBManager plugin doesn’t autodetect paths to mysqldump or mysql. Had to submit a support ticket to Bravenet to get this info. More time spent waiting…
Several hours later…Bravenet got back to me and told me they won’t provide that info. I’ve appealed to their better judgement but am not hopeful of a positive response. It’s beginning to look like I’m going to have to move the site (all 5+Gb of …
Aside from a couple of blogs like this one that I manually update from time to time, I also run some autoblogs built using the WordPress Mage system. If you’re familiar with the term, an autoblog is one that has a number of future dated posts queued up to be posted on specific dates. You build the blog and let it run on autopilot from then on.
That is until WordPress 2.9.x came along……
