Getting to #100
Last week, I clicked on a client’s website and it was completely down.
And yes, I panicked a little. Ok, maybe more than a little. 😳
I’d never dealt with that particular problem before, so I started working on it. I checked the site, got into the backend, looked at the hosting, and eventually figured out what had happened and got the site back up.
The problem turned out to be something the hosting company had done without my knowledge, so it wasn’t something I had caused, and not realistically something I could have anticipated.
Afterward, I caught myself thinking that maybe this shouldn’t have felt like such a big deal.
People who have been doing this longer have dealt with sites going down plenty of times. They know what to check. They know what to try. It’s probably not particularly remarkable to them.
And then I realized: they had to deal with it for the first time once, too.
You don’t get to the 100th time without making it through the first one.
I think I sometimes compare something that’s brand new to me with something someone else has already done a hundred times.
Last week was a good reminder for me that those aren’t really the same thing. I made it through this one. Onward to catastrophe #2! 😊