Bugger ! - How long till rank suffers ?

Server just died..

My provider rebuilt it, but obviously everything was lost, and being the guru I am, was backing up to the same physical device.. (Obviously more concerned about uninvited guests than hardware issues..)

Long question short..

Anyone know how long a site can be off the air before it starts effecting rank ?

Never been down this road before

Cheers,

JL

 

I think several days (2-3 atleast for me ) is no problem.

 

If you have no backup at all, learn from it and you can use Google for seeing cached pages.

 

Thanks Tuning,

That's what I was after

DCT, I use nocache.



Cheers,

JL

 

What about Archive.org?

 

Thanks labrocca, but it's a relatively young site.. the only reference is from Oct 2004, which was just days into development (Mambo default home page etc)...

In the end I rebuilt the main site from bits and peices I had on old media (2 days work). Glad that's over

Rank has suffered, but seems to be picking back up.

Cheers

JL

 

You poor thing John, you have been through my worst nightmare! Archive.org is a good idea- never seen it before, thanks! Our site is now our sole income so I am petrified of an 'incident'! We have got a seperate hard drive with a complete copy of the site on it, is there anything else anyone knows of that I should do as well as a safeguard?

Thanks!

 

I've had similar problem, sites all lost ranking. Once they were back up it took only a few more weeks and most of them regained their spot again..

 

make a backup copy on your local hard drive and if you want burn it to cd too

 

Thanks! The burn to disk thing is something I hadn't thought of (feel a bit silly now too!!) I've got sooooooooooo much to learn!

 

dont feel silly, i am always on at people to backup, but the amount of times ive had a hard-drive crash (not just server hard-drive) and had no bad-up.

html files are easy to backup if you work with them locally then ftp them, but mysql is different if you forget to back that up your entire site is toast.