Resurrecting the Blog: How I Restored the Archive and Preserved 15 Years of Links
Back in 2021, I published a short post titled Welcome Back. In it, I mentioned that years prior, I had lost my entire original blog located at mellowd.co.uk/ccie during a botched server upgrade. That site had originally chronicled my journey toward my CCIE (#28448) and JNCIE-SP (#1134), along with deep dives into BGP, QoS, MPLS, and protocol internals. At the time of that 2021 post, I managed to manually piece back 13 articles using the Wayback Machine. But life got busy, and more than 20 detailed technical posts, along with dozens of network diagrams, hardware photos, and Wireshark captures, remained trapped in digital limbo. ...