I had another blog on another site and its being have some problems over the last couple of years and I started moving my archives to another location thinking I had plenty of time to move them over because why would the owner of the blog suddenly disband the concept or not renew his domain name - all those people that blog there are either without a blog or have moved on. There is no way to contact the owner of the blog or the domain and now all posts not backed up or moved over at gone forever. And its not like backing up was a simple feature, I had to copy and paste all my posts page by page into a word document.
I'm not so upset by the prospective of the site going away, I was moving away from it anyways. What I'm upset with is that there was no notification and there is no way to retrieve my posts - poems, stories from the last few years - all gone and I can't recreate because it happened in the moment.
Moral of the story: no matter what blogging software you use, make sure you can backup your posts, retrieve your data and save in somewhere save in a text file just in case your blogging site decides to be no more.
12:30:05 PM 
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