May 10 2009
The Fall and Rise of a Weblog: What was Lost
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Below is the part you all have been eagerly awaiting since the beginning of The Fall and Rise of a Weblog series: Prologue, The Situation, and The Result. “Here comes the pain baby! Here comes the pain.” – Snake Eyes. Because of Film-Book dot Com’s suspension by Bluefur.com and the site’s subsequent downtime:
- Film-Book dot Com lost 670 modified pictures (uploaded continuously since the site began) inserted throughout 404 posts. This resulted in lackluster, barebones past posts in the Film-Book dot Com’s Archives. Because the 670 pictures were not available, when Google and other sites linked to those images and posts, unique visitors looking for them (in their associated posts) did not find them, did not stay long (increasing my bounce rate), did not sign up for my RSS Feed, click on ads, other posts or make comments.
- All of the websites paying for links within Film-Book dot Com’s posts and Archives canceled.
- A large percentage of the posts that were edited a few days before the suspension, around 40 Film Reviews, were restored to their previous versions (before they were edited) after the suspension was lifted.
- Film-Book dot Com’s Technorati Rating dropped from around 40 to 36.
- Numerous opportunities were lost. Since my site was off-line, I could not show certain people that I did in fact run a film website.
- Time. Instead of writing new content and posts, I have to replace 11+ months of media deleted during the course of my suspension.
On these points, I have no opinion. Like I have said before, I am neutral.
Next week the fifth and final part of this series will be published.
In the mean time – a question for discussion:
- Have you ever experienced a site and data loss of this nature yourself before?
The remaining post in The Fall and Rise of a Weblog series: What was Learned.
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I back up my database almost weekly. Just takes a few minutes. You can never be too safe!
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An extremely prudent move on your part Trench.
I’ve been reading this series with great interest, and I can imagine the frustration you must have felt. I’m still using a free Blogger platform, but the thought of losing all my content is horrifying. I have downloaded it all, but I don’t know how easy it would be to upload/reformat again.
In your case I don’t think you had any other choice unless you wanted to start over from scratch.
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Very gratifying to hear that you have been reading the series Daniel.
It was indeed horrific.
I've been super careful and I'm glad I took two years to learn the ins and outs of Drupal and backing up my website. This series is a strong reminder that with all the hard work and extraordinary amounts of content that you can create, for many reasons, websites can go down.
I also have to hand it to my webhost for 6 years, Webmasters.com who not only provides a great, affordable service, but also has kick ass customer support.
I should really pay for that Amazon back up service being offered. I back it up the old fashion way now.
Hostgator has been a really good host so far.
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