Well, it has happened again. I have had my progressed halted and set back a couple of months in the matter of moments. Last Monday my host decided to terminate my hosting account for violations of the AUP. No other details than that.
It has taken this long to get the correct backup restore and the databases converted over. My rankings have taken a dive to oblivion but hopefully it is a short visit. I will be making a handful of pretty thin sites at the end of the week to hopefully get my income backup with some exact domain name match websites. Will be interesting to see how they go.
I recommend everyone who relies on a website to have another host that runs a mirror of your site to prevent this from happening to you!
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by Jacob
13 May 2010 at 13:45
I’m not familiar with the AUP, but from what I’ve seen of you on Warrior forum you probably weren’t doing anything you shouldn’t have. What hosts were you using and if you don’t mind what is AUP?
It’s probably something very obvious that I know and am just drawing blanks for. Sucks about your sites, but I bet they’ll return quickly. I had the same problem once when my host was down for an irregular amount of time…like 2 days and I didn’t notice until the revenue dried up.
by Troy
13 May 2010 at 14:48
I was using SurfSpeedy for the sites that went down. I have been using them for quite some time and have never had any issues with them. Their support has actually been very responsive in the past. Their AUP is, as many, vague.
The plan I was on no longer exists and the replacement plans are a lot more restrictive so it might have something to do with it. I had 12 WordPress blogs on the host and 3 of these used an auto amazon plugin (set to post 2 times per day per blog). I was also using the Onlywire Autosubmitter plugin. I also had Backlink Booster running every 20mins.
I would say that I was pushing the limits of the host and someone objected. I would have appreciated them suspending the account and asking me to correct the issue rather than terminate but it is all done now.
A few of my keywords are pushing some traffic so hopefully once the Google bot does its thing I will be back to where I was