A little over a week ago, I woke up to find that the original Scribbles and Musings was gone. Six months of work deleted by the webhost when they decided starting from scratch was the best way to deal with a security issue. No advance notice so that a backup could be made. It was all gone.
After getting over the discouragement of all that lost work, I had to decide where to go from here. Should I continue self-hosting my blog? Should I choose a new webhost wtih more features than No Support Linux Hosting. Yes, the $1/month price tag is awesome. But I was no longer sure it was the right way for me to go.
But I finally made a decision today. Squarespace sponsors two of my favorite podcasts, Tech News Today and All About Android. So I am giving them a try to see if I like the page I can create.
Right now, I am in the process of sorting out all of the posts I made on my Blogger blog prior to the switch to a self-hosted WordPress blog and waiting for the DNS to repopulate so that users going to scribler.us can fine me. But while I get all of that sorted out, I will be posting again. And I am really glad to get my site going again.
Really sorry to hear you have lost so much work. WordPress does have a feature to create backups and there are addons that can automate this so it operates in the background. You can also look at double-posting (posting to primary and back-up blogs from the same tool). No doubt squarespace offer something similar (as well as decent backup and recovery options). Hard way to learn. Hope you can recover some of the content in due course.