How website downtime affects your site marketing

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by webcosmo, Aug 26, 2007.

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    For technical reasons we have downtimes of the server once in a while. How does it affect the marketing of the site? Whats the solution?
     
    webcosmo, Aug 26, 2007 IP
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    Of course it has an effect if a visitor wanting to purchase visits and its down..

    they wont be back....
     
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    Downtime is not good for business.
     
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    From my experience I saw if any website is down often it starts loosing people. This can be the worst thing happen to e-commerce sites.
     
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    yogesh sarkar Well-Known Member

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    Not only do you loose customers who are visiting your site at that point in time, you also loose your search engine rankings, especially if the downtime is prolonged.
     
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    aletheides Banned

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    Downtime is no good, avoid it at all costs. Its the devil. Really.
     
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    Sometimes its really difficult. If you have a high traffic site with lot of db connections disaster can happen with single stupid reasons.
     
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    Downtime is a real killer. Consider adding a redundant server.
     
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    Its affects it very much.
     
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    Thats not a bad idea actually. But if you have dedicated server rented, what are the options?
     
    webcosmo, Aug 26, 2007 IP