I think I just made one of the biggest mistke in my life. I"m hosting a shopping cart on godaddy for the last 9-10 months and the website was slow from the first day, but I never really bothered to do anything about it until today... I decided to cancel that SSL certificate because I thought it was the reason why the website was so slow and I wasn't using it since my checkout is Paypal. Also let me add that all my website was in https, not only the checkpout part, so every single pages was https (though I realised you could access them with http). But here it goes, "Current Hosting Account Status: Pending Account Change". Website is down for the last 10 hours. For each hour the website's is down, that's 50-100USD gone... I've contacted godaddy and they said it will take up to 72 hours! And now on top of that, I just realised that this will make all my webpages to go from https to http (which I knew), but all the thousands of pages indexed on google are all in https. 80% of the traffic is from google. Will the change from https to http cancel all the webpage indexed!? For the short term, when the website will come online, the people will click my website on google, but they'll find it not working because it would be in https, correct? If so, is there a way to change that in the .htaccess, to forward all https queries to http? For the long term, will all the link disappear from google and then they'd have to be indexed back again, or will google update them directly to http? I'm also thinking of all the backlinks that are in https. Oh man, that certainly was a really bad mistake... was it?
I would create a redirect page asap. I am sure there is a way to redirect https to http. Do a google search. Good luck my friend, and don't worry things will work out, but stop beating up on yourself.
https changes are immediate. no waiting needs to be done. So get go daddy to do it asap! My advice would be to buy another certificate and install it.. then when you get the https working, do a 301 redirection from https to http so that google indexes the http not https.. Then remove certificate when google redirected pages. Btw, if you website is generating 50USD an hr, you should get dedicated hosting!!
How do I go about the 301 redirect from https to http? I have looked on google and found some .htaccess code for that, but each time I create an .htaccess on the server, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Is there any othe way that .htaccess to do this on godaddy? Am i receiving these error because I no longer have a SSL certificate? Maybe I need one to be able to redirect from https to http?
I see your situations out there,but as everybosy up there using dedicated hosting should be your next plan to encounter this situations and about 301 redirection ,yes you can do that ,I have try this for my wordpress c panel and now search engine traffic no more "PAGE NOT FOUND"