Cy’s Site is Up and Running
Just a short one, to let you know that Cy’s blog was cleaned and is up again.
I had my own share of problems when I discovered my challenge site was down today.
When I emailed my hosting provider about the problem, they just responded that the server was too busy and had to be restarted.
Right now I’m crossing my fingers and praying that no search engine robot came to visit while my site was down. I’ve heard this can cause grave penalties in the rankings.
This is the 2nd hosting provider which I’ve caught “restarting my site’s server”. I was thinking they’d have some sort of backup device that “back’s up” your site when the main server is down. So much for the 99.9% uptime guarantee.
April 6th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
I’m glad to hear Cy’s site is back up. This is the second blog I’ve heard of/seen being hacked - don’t people have anything better to do with their time?
Re: your downtime, as long as it wasn’t down for a long time, it shouldn’t be too big of a deal. My site has been down a few times, but I haven’t suffered any penalties.
Just because your site’s server had to be restarted doesn’t mean your site’s been down for longer than 99.9% percent of the time…take it in stride. If the server was constantly down, I could see it as a problem.
Why not register for siteuptime.com - I believe it’s free and can moniter your site every half hour (if I’m not mistaken), then it gives you a month end report.
April 7th, 2005 at 11:32 am
I just registered with siteuptime.com. Thanks for the tip.
My site was down for about 15 minutes and it only happened once as far as I know. So I’m not taking it too hard.
BTW I like your new tree
April 12th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
Thanks Nadav,
- what do you think?
I’m thinking about scanning my actual tree so people can see what I do - but I’m still debating it
I may scan it at the end of the challenge anyway…
April 13th, 2005 at 1:14 am
Teli,
Just be careful about what sites you’re letting others see.
If I remember correctly one challenger had posted his site for others to see, and this gave some “nice” guy the opportunity to constantly click on his adsense ads, which got him into trouble with Google.
So just take that into consideration…