Comments on: My Website Was Gone When I Woke Up http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/ Helping You To Optimize and Monetize Your WordPress Niche Blog Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Karri Napagio http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-90502 Karri Napagio Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:18:13 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-90502 Great tips. My only query is with regards to your last point. It is one of those things that seems to be good in theory, but as the practice requires a two way agreement (half of which we have no control over), apart from making sure that my contact info is all up to date; what can I really do to make sure the lines of communication stay open? From experience you only find out how good things are when they go wrong. Unfortunately, this is also when you realize just how bad things can get as well. And that can be devastating. Hosts disappear, but websites will live forever. Or vice versa. Great tips.
My only query is with regards to your last point. It is one of those things that seems to be good in theory, but as the practice requires a two way agreement (half of which we have no control over), apart from making sure that my contact info is all up to date; what can I really do to make sure the lines of communication stay open?
From experience you only find out how good things are when they go wrong. Unfortunately, this is also when you realize just how bad things can get as well. And that can be devastating.
Hosts disappear, but websites will live forever. Or vice versa.

]]> By: a.erol http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-88146 a.erol Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:00:59 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-88146 The internet is still open to many threats. We all are anxious about what may happen to our web site the next day, so better solutions must be found! The internet is still open to many threats. We all are anxious about what may happen to our web site the next day, so better solutions must be found!

]]> By: John http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-222 John Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:52:18 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-222 Teli, Same thing happened to me so now I have 5 different hosting providers. I take my top 5 money earning domains and put 1 on each server so that if it happens again I switch to one of the other 4. Happy Thanksgiving to my US bloggers and friends. John Walsh Teli,

Same thing happened to me so now I have 5 different hosting providers.

I take my top 5 money earning domains and put 1 on each server so that if it happens again I switch to one of the other 4.

Happy Thanksgiving to my US bloggers and friends.

John Walsh

]]> By: Andy Beard - Niche Marketing http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-219 Andy Beard - Niche Marketing Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:21:47 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-219 Well good news on the home front... my server is back running PHP again, so all the navigation and half the content has suddenly reappeared. PHP is wonderful, but tempermental. It only takes a small adjustment in server setting to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down. Have you got any suggestions for tools that will automatically update a static version of a wordpress blog, maybe in a password protected directory, such that is for instance MYSQL blows a fuse on a server, you can switch to the static content? I suppose one option would be to have a feed of all posts, and send it to a static based blog such as blogger, and somehow mimic the file structure for a switch with .htaccess Well good news on the home front… my server is back running PHP again, so all the navigation and half the content has suddenly reappeared.

PHP is wonderful, but tempermental. It only takes a small adjustment in server setting to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down.

Have you got any suggestions for tools that will automatically update a static version of a wordpress blog, maybe in a password protected directory, such that is for instance MYSQL blows a fuse on a server, you can switch to the static content?

I suppose one option would be to have a feed of all posts, and send it to a static based blog such as blogger, and somehow mimic the file structure for a switch with .htaccess

]]> By: Teli Adlam http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-218 Teli Adlam Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:36:43 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-218 Thank you Adriana, Andrew, and Mindy for commenting and for sharing your own stories. It's important that people know, it happens - a lot more than is usually mentioned... Adriana, I created a brand new post on <a href="http://www.optiniche.com/blog/98/backing-up-a-website/" title="Backing Up A Website">how to back up a website</a>. Hopefully you will find it helpful :) Thank you Adriana, Andrew, and Mindy for commenting and for sharing your own stories. It’s important that people know, it happens – a lot more than is usually mentioned…

Adriana, I created a brand new post on how to back up a website. Hopefully you will find it helpful :)

]]> By: Mindy Koch http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-217 Mindy Koch Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:41:04 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-217 I had this happen to me a few days ago. I hate that feeling of "it is down"! Even worse, I had a notice up to contact the billing dept. Ugh. How humiliating. I had told my webhost I wanted to move to VPS instead of reseller and it was time to renew my account and they didn't know what I wanted to do since they are different prices and I hadn't responded to their email (because I had a pinched nerve)... luckily someone PM'd me and told me and was able to get it take care of in ten minutes. Still... I hate that feeling! Mindy Koch I had this happen to me a few days ago. I hate that feeling of “it is down”! Even worse, I had a notice up to contact the billing dept. Ugh. How humiliating.

I had told my webhost I wanted to move to VPS instead of reseller and it was time to renew my account and they didn’t know what I wanted to do since they are different prices and I hadn’t responded to their email (because I had a pinched nerve)… luckily someone PM’d me and told me and was able to get it take care of in ten minutes.

Still… I hate that feeling!

Mindy Koch

]]> By: Andrew http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-215 Andrew Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:03:50 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-215 Ouch Teli I feel bad enough having discovered on one of my accounts that for some reason PHP isn't working on the primary domain.. but is on all subdomains. Yes I have submitted a support ticket, I just hope they address it fast. One thing to be thankful for, the site isn't yet 100% php, or there would be absolutely nothing for the SEs to see. Ouch Teli

I feel bad enough having discovered on one of my accounts that for some reason PHP isn’t working on the primary domain.. but is on all subdomains.
Yes I have submitted a support ticket, I just hope they address it fast. One thing to be thankful for, the site isn’t yet 100% php, or there would be absolutely nothing for the SEs to see.

]]> By: Adriana http://www.optiniche.com/blog/96/my-website-was-gone-when-i-woke-up/#comment-214 Adriana Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:38:05 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/?p=96#comment-214 WOW, Teli, I am sorry to hear about your ordeal this morning. And thank you so mucn for your detailed tips on minimizing potential damage. You mentioned backing up: can you go into more detail on how to do that? I appreciate your wisdom. Adriana WOW, Teli,

I am sorry to hear about your ordeal this morning. And thank you so mucn for your detailed tips on minimizing potential damage. You mentioned backing up: can you go into more detail on how to do that? I appreciate your wisdom. Adriana

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