Web Hosting Company Problems

Web Hosting. The Achilles Heel of web designers.

My former Web Host really screwed up and blocked GoogleBot from my websites.

That means traffic on my sites hosted with this company dropped about 70% - for over 100 sites (belonging to myself and to clients).

Here's a lesson in web economics:

Traffic (people) = Money.
More traffic = Good.
Less Traffic = Bad.

This was a very, very bad thing. And it hurt.

And it was extremely time consuming to look for a new hosting company, upload the site to the new servers, change the DNS information with over 20 domain name registrars and check the error logs and test for broken links, change paths for CGI and PHP and basically troubleshoot.

I will recommend some web hosting companies in the next post - and I will not "out" the company that did this - but always be on top of things and check your logs frequently.