What If Your Blog Goes Offline

Sha June 11, 2007 6

If you noticed earlier, my blog wasn’t accessible for a period of time. To be exact it was “1 hour, 15 minutes, 26 seconds” to be precise. Such downtime do matter to me as it might mean a difference in my daily web earnings. So luckily I was prepared for such downtime. I can’t really prevent it but I can minimize it. Here’s what I reckon that you do too

Firstly Site Uptime

Sign up with a server monitor system. I found one, and it’s FREE, provided by Site Uptime. The moment my server was down offline, it informed me immediately. It even has option to inform you again if the server is up again plus monetizing by joining it’s affiliate program. This is very important, as knowing when your sever is down, you can next take action immediately to rectify it

Sign up to SiteUptime.com

Secondly Hostgator

Once you’re informed that your server is down, you need to contact your web hosting company to get it fixed. Well I’m glad I’ve a great web hosting company. I’m using Hostgator Web Hosting. I sent in my ticket support and they replied to me immediately. So the issue was only a problem for that 1 hour plus only. I hope it didn’t interfere with the on-going progress of reading my blog :-)

Sign up with Hostgator

Keep the comments coming and hope the above advice helps

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I was raised on classic rock and ballads, so forgive me if I'm not quite the trance, house music kinda guy. I can't sing, but I can croak, and yes I do take request, only for that special one. My life story is revealed in details with spunky disposition at this personal blog of mine. I'd like to meet honest people who are fun, outgoing, upfront and not stressed! People with clean bathroom, tree huggers will be given higher priority and more attention of course.

6 Comments »

Faddy June 11, 2007 at 6:07 am - Reply

ahhaha i noticed my blog went cuckoo, wanted to email you but decided you already knew since yours was too. hehehe. thanks for taking action pronto sha! :D
- Uncle Sha June 11, 2007 at 10:02 pm - Reply
  
  i think my server getting more popular … i just hope we won’t need to move to a dedicated server. will cost me abomb!
Ed Kohler June 11, 2007 at 2:16 pm - Reply

Great post. Finding out your site went down from a reader or friend is also pretty embarrassing. Better to hear about it first from a site monitoring program.
- Uncle Sha June 11, 2007 at 10:04 pm - Reply
  
  Thanks for the kind word … i was just having contingencies plan
  
  as you know shite happens always :-)
heavyD June 13, 2007 at 10:09 am - Reply

Good tip
Arun January 22, 2008 at 6:12 pm - Reply

Sorry, I’m a bit late into this discussion, but still valid, I guess.

Yes its always better to have your blog monitored by a third party monitoring service and Siteuptime is good. you may also want to try http://site24x7.com – a website monitoring service from the makers of Zoho. It offers both free and paid plans.