{"id":3464,"date":"2023-12-12T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/12\/help-bill-needs-computer-website-dns-help\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:03","slug":"help-bill-needs-computer-website-dns-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/12\/help-bill-needs-computer-website-dns-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Help!  Bill Needs Computer\/Website\/DNS Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some SolderSmoke fans have noticed that many links to earlier podcasts (and other things) have disappeared from the SolderSmoke Daily News blog. This is my fault. I am trying to correct it, but have been having a tough time. This is definitely a problem that is outside my analog, discrete component comfort zone. <\/p>\n<p>The host is Bluehost. They also are the DNS host. This morning I wrote to them explaining the problem: <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; For many years I have had a website on Bluehost called soldersmoke.com. On this website I stored many (around 250) .mp3 files, a .rss. and other important files. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; On November 20, I created a WordPress site on bluehost: https:\/\/dqu&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; On November 29, I attempted to have my Bluehost soldersmoke.com site point to the new WordPress site. I may have renamed the WordPress site.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; After carrying out this action on November 29, I was dismayed to find that all of the many .mp3 and .rss files I had on the soldersmoke.com site are no longer accessible.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; I have carried out backups of the soldersmoke.com site going back to November 15. While these backups appear successful, the files remain inaccessible.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; I think there is a pointing\/naming\/DNS problem that remains to be resolved. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; Please go back to the pointing\/naming action I took on November 29 and <u>undo or reverse<\/u> this action so that the files that I have on the soldersmoke.com site are again accessible. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">&#8212; I am not concerned about the new WordPress blog &#8212; can recreate this later. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">With help from Dean KK4DAS we will today again attempt to fix this problem. But if anyone out there has any <u>good ideas<\/u> on how to fix this, please let me know. <\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Thanks, 73 Bill <\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some SolderSmoke fans have noticed that many links to earlier podcasts (and other things) have disappeared from the SolderSmoke Daily News blog. This is my fault. I am trying to correct it, but have been having a tough time. This is definitely a problem that is outside my analog, discrete component comfort zone. The host &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/12\/help-bill-needs-computer-website-dns-help\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help!  Bill Needs Computer\/Website\/DNS Help!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11254,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/11254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}