Hi, with the kind support & help from fellow directory owners here, i've managed to compile a short list of painful experiences that others have made. Hopefully, we will all learn from one another and don't make the same mistakes! Post can be found here: LinksFactory.net Blog Comments wld be appreciated and if i've misquoted you, pls let me know and i'll correct it. I wld be more than happy to add to the list if there are some of you eager to share too. Do mention it here and I will update the post. Tks!
My most painful experience with directories was having a baby in the middle of uploading a sql database and then pressing delete by accident when the head popped out.
Always keep a backup, i didn't and it way my biggest mistake.. due to which 1000+ links were gone from my free + paid directory
No kidding on that one sizzler_chetan and NEVER rely on your hosts they can charge you to recover it if they have backed up.
I was really sad as that was my first and last free directory i worked on, but now it is running a lot better
I agree with you. Making a backup if one of the most overlooked things that just needs to be done. And having a reliable host is equally important.
Hey -- Nice post you made there. I enjoyed it and thought SilkySmooth's experience was the most valuable one in terms of learning the industry tricks.
Nice reading there I hope to not follow that path ... (Though I just made a similar "attempt" as MeetHere)
Good work jl255, it would be been much much better if ya point link to the directory of that particular directory owner too.
i wanted to, but nobody wanted to post their directory links as requested in my previous thread. Assumed that they did not want it listed beside their mistakes
Ive spent so much time on this section of the forums that by time i had decided to start my first directory i had read of some of the poor experiences that some directory owners went through and managed to avoid these things. While im not happy that someone else has had to endure the pain for people like me to learn of the small mistakes that are devastating, it has been helpful that their good advice has prevented a lot of pain for many of us. Resulting in myself backing up db's daily, making Home Directory backups and generally taking my time over delicate actions to save a nightmare later on. jl255, thanks for writing the blog post.
You can always add my directory dBest Directory - and the mistakes I made were with BLOG and Directories categories
Probably the best thing I ever did was take the same route as you pipes, although I did buy my script first. Lucky gamble I guess.
ok here is the directory which i had done mistake on, and is now running quite successfully - http://www.the-free-directory.info/
I purchased a goddadys hosting plan for two years. After Installing PHPLD (v2.0), I never able to login to my admin panel of directory. One suggestion from me (from my personal experience) : Never think of goddadys hosting, atleast for PHPLD directory.