How are you doing!
I have just gone through a very bad experince that I hope you’ll never have this kind of experience your self…
Here’s the story…
Last January 2010, I sign up to a paid forum that main selling point is to provide PLR products vault (gigantic PLRs I can say) and unlimited free hosting account as long as I am a member.
To cut the long story short, On October 2010 the owner announce that he will be working on another business model and will not provide PLR products anymore. However, members may still subscribe to keep their hosting account.
Since the monthly admission was $29.99 and I only got 26 site there, its not economical to stay. I’d better get my own reseller account.
So, on November 2010 I start moving all of my site with WPTwin, which is a breeze. Then I cancel my subscription to the forum.
Little that I know… there’s one website that I missed…. and this site is quite big, it has 50 pages/post around weight loss, I get around 30-50 visitors a day and increasing.
I just realized that this site goes out of map on late December. So it been missing from Search engine’s radar for almost 1 months!
I tried to contact the owner and tried to resubscribe. But somehow the owner didn’t reply to my email or support request.
I literally lost access to all of the content that I have from that site and since it’s been missing from search engine for quite some time, I lost the my ranking too.
It’s a very frustating moments for me. It was all my mistake and not the forum’s / forum owner’s mistake.
Further more, I learned some positive side of this incident:
1. I learned that you should not rely on your hosting company. Especially if your hosting is a provided by a membership. You got to make your own backup continiously to avoid such event. You can use free wordpress backup plugin like the one here, paid solutions like BackupBuddy or WPTwin.
If you use backupbuddy or wptwin and backup on your harddrive, always remember to be extra save use service like dropbox.com or Amazon S3 to save your file “on the cloud”
Hosting by membership are usually good. But what happen if your credit card got rejected and your membership got canceled immediately? That’s something to think about 
2. Okay, I lost the website, but do I lost all of my articles and content that I have worked hard for?
Fortunately not Thanks to search engines technology, I can recover my contents from search engine’s cache and revive my site
Here how I recovered the content and revive my site from deat.
Go to Google and Bing and do a site search like this:
site:domainname.com -tag
That commands will tell google or bing to list my sites link they have in their cache, minus the tag’s
Google/Bing will list down all of my links and show an option to open their latest cache for my web page.
I then click the ‘cache’, I will get my ‘cached’ page which I’ll quickly copy and paste to my website. Go to the next link until all links and content posted back to your site.
Note:
- I went to both Google and Bing to make sure I get complete list of my links and content
- I was using wordpress for my website, it’s imperative to reinstall wordpress and set the permalinks like what I had in my previous site to make sure all backlinks and link intact.
Alright, that’s all for now, hope you enjoy my post!
Do share your though if you have such incident or experience
Thanks!
Hendra
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