Hoe ik al mijn verkeer verloor Google omdat ik mijn plaats niet steunde

Gepost op 1 Oktober, 2007 in 12:06 p.m.

Ik ervoer enkel a blogger het meest het ergst nightmare: Verpletterde de server van mijn ontvangend bedrijf, werd de meeste gegevens VERLOREN, was mijn plaats neer twee volledige dagen, en ik verloor elk van mijn verkeer! En bovenop dat allen, was ik niet zelfs in stad toen dit gebeurde, zodat kon ik niet het probleem bevestigen tot ik achter thuiskwam omdat ik geen verre steunen had. Zo na het blogging 6 maanden en het verhogen van mijn verkeer langzaam maar regelmatig tot bijna 1200 bezoekers een dag, word ik nu kolossale 45 bezoekers van Google!

Google is ongelooflijk snel bij het verwijderen van een plaats uit het is hoofdindex als iets verkeerd is en hier bewijs hieronder is:

Zo aangezien u van de grafiek kunt zien, was ik goed boven 1.000 bezoekers een dag tot 28 September en verder. Van wat ik van mijn ontvangend bedrijf te weten kwam, BlueHost, had de server een „strenge“ hardwaremislukking laat in de avond op Vrijdag, achtentwintigste. Jammer genoeg, zelfs met elk van hun reservesystemen, enz., „verloren“ zij enkele steunen en anderen werden bedorven! Herinner me nu, spreekt u over een ONTVANGEND bedrijf en vrij populaire ook dat VERLOREN hun steunen.

En dat is enkel verkeer Google, verloor ik elk van mijn verkeer Yahoo, ook verkeer StumbleUpon, en meer dan de helft van mijn abonnees FeedBurner! Allen het neemt het één fout als dit om alles te verknoeien!

Ik had een steun van mijn SQL gegevensbestand, zodat had ik elk van mijn bewaarde posten, maar ik had geen volledige steun van mijn daadwerkelijke huisfolder op de server. Thankfully, was ik één van de gelukkige die slechts een paar bedorven dossiers hadden en alles niet verloren. De dossiers die bedorven werden waren alle index.php- dossiers die in diverse plaatsen in de folders Wordpress worden opgeslagen. Ik kon de recentste versie van WordPress downloaden, alle oude dossiers samen met de bedorven en alles was vervangen online achter.

NOCHTANS, waren elk van mijn gegevens verloren, had ik slechts steunen van mijn thema Wordpress en de een paar systeemomslagen zoals wp-admin en wp-omvat. Ik zou elk van mijn beelden verloren hebben en stop-ins die in de wp-inhoud omslag worden opgeslagen. Ik fundamenteel werd heerlijk GELUKKIG en dit was een groot kielzog oproept voor me. Het is moeilijk om iets in die aard te veronderstellen die aan u gebeuren, maar het doet en als u niet wordt voorbereid, konden elk van uw hard werk (en inkomen) binnen een paar uren verdwijnen!!!

Hier is mijn nieuwe mantra dat ik van nu af aan zal volgen:

MAKE BACKUPS OF ALL DATA ON MY WEB SITE DAILY

STORE THE BACKUPS LOCALLY, ON MY HOSTING COMPANY’S SERVERS, AND REMOTELY USING ANOTHER SERVICE

ASSUME IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME AGAIN

As of now, my site has been up and running since yesterday and I’m still not getting any traffic from Google. Hopefully, things will come back once they see that the site does not simply have the words "This site is temporarily down due to required repairs" written all over it! I’m praying!

Anyone else have this kind of experience? If so, post a comment about what happened and if you recovered or not! Thanks!

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7 Responses to “How I lost all my Google traffic because I didn’t back up my site”

Sameer said on : October 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pm

Talk about Murphy’s law. I was wondering what happened! Glad you are back online.

Assuming you had a remote backup of the entire blog with the database, and your primary server crashed, can all the files be restored automatically without human intervention?

Or is it that one has to always manually restore/upload the files via local or remote backups? In this case if someone is on vacation for 3-4 days and does NOT check on their blog, the backup would not be restored and traffic still be lost, regardless if you have a backup or not.

“Automatic restore and synchronize”.. is there anything like that for web sites or blogs?

I hope I make sense.

akishore said on : October 1st, 2007 at 5:23 pm

Hey Sameer,

I’m glad to be back too! hahaha That was quite scary indeed. To answer your question about automatic recovery or restoration of backups, the answer right now is yes and no. In my case, the backups were actually corrupt, so I still had to manually upload and replace files.

Had the files not been corrupt, they actually did restore my files to the original directory, so my site would be been up and running just fine. I’m sure that most large hosting companies will try to automatically restore your site in case of a failure. But as you can see, it’s good to have your own backup because you can’t count on them sometimes!

Siddharth said on : October 1st, 2007 at 9:33 pm

I host on a free host my site due to lack of money.They are really nice but when they are down they take a lot of time to recover.

My site,http://technoworld.uni.cc, is down from 23rd of October and is currently down now also as you might have experienced.
Google got my site on 2nd no when i searched for technoworld but now I cant see it even on the 3rd page
I used to have the most search traffic from the query technoworld
:’(

I never had huge traffic like urs ,normally 150 page views a day 50 subscribers .

But but , I am so sad cant say nything.I am consoling my father to have a paid host, he agrees but we dont have credit card.
So problems and problems and problems , that too when I was getting popular as I got 2 of my articles in lifehacker and 1 in downloadsquad and was starting to get comments :-((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

yeah,But I had daily backups of posts and had all images backups plugins themes

Someone please help me!

going for a trip to dal housie.Will be back on 8th:-) hope to see my site also back by the time

P.S : I am getting jealous of you.I havent written nything from so many days and you can write on ur blog

Sydney said on : October 1st, 2007 at 11:53 pm

(I feel like I should knock on wood before replying, here…)

Glad to see you back up and running! I can only imagine the feeling when you found out. Recently my entire SQL database disappeared from my hosting service, only to reappear an hour later with their apologies. Fortunately I hadn’t launched my blog yet, so the information that [might have] been lost wasn’t detrimental. I now [try] to backup regularly.

You mentioned you use WordPress; I was curious as to whether you’ve installed the database backup plugin. Thus far it’s proven very useful for me. The plugin can be downloaded at http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/

All in all though, glad you’re back. I’ve been reading your blog for a couple months now and always find it incredibly helpful!

akishore said on : October 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 am

Hi Siddarth,

Don’t be too worried, as long as they can get your site up and running within a few days, your traffic will come back. There are actually a lot of free hosting services out there that might be better than the one you’re currently using. I’ll try to send you some links!

Good luck and don’t be jealous! Your blog will do fine, everyone has to go through these rough times!

akishore said on : October 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 am

Hi Sydney, thanks for visiting my blog for such a long time! I’m glad you enjoy it! I was really about to kill myself if I had lost 6 months worth of work in one day!

Currently, I do have the wp-db-backup plugin installed and running. Unfortunately, as I came to find out, having just the posts backed up was not enough. Even with my database intact, some of my web files were corrupted (the PHP files) and all of the pictures would have been missing also!

Luckily, my blog traffic has returned to normal today, so that was fairly quick. I’m doing daily backups now!

Again, thanks for visiting!