Minor Setback, but Moving Forward
Okay, a little drama in the last few days. SuperGreen Hosting (aka JustHost.com) suspended my account for going over my CPU usage. Oops! I was really bummed for a few days, and didn’t do anything, just stewed about it.
I went to the Mage forum and got tremendously wonderful help from Greg, his team, and the other mages.
All my sites were on this one host, so all my sites went down, and of course, so did my traffic and clicks.
In the last two days I have regrouped, and am moving forward with a better plan. I hope all of you can learn from my mistakes, and avoid the headaches I may encounter along the way.
First of all, having my account suspended was in no way Greg’s fault. I simply posted too many posts, with too many translation versions, I think. Now I know how to keep a closer eye on my usage limits. (I’m learning, too.)
I now have three hosting accounts: SuperGreen, 1and1, and Hostnine. I will spread my sites out amongst all three. I will not translate at all. I am starting with only a few hundred posts, and a couple sites have 5,000 posts. Later, I will add more posts to the smaller sites.
In some ways, I’m glad I had the chance to start over. It was very easy for me to develop a new “template” or layout of my posts so that my ebay ads show on top. I also have chosen more lucrative keywords and ebay categories for my sites. I’ve added proper tracking codes to all my sites.
Really, I’m only set back two weeks, and in the grand scheme, it’s not a big deal, although I was very disappointed, yes.
Funny thing, hours after I got one of my sites recreated, I already had an adsense click! The traffic is still coming, but they are getting 404 errors. I can see that my sites now have hundreds of pages indexed, but I think those are pages from the previous versions of my websites. Basically, the indexing will have to start from scratch for all my sites.
So, it will be another couple weeks as I watch my indexing, traffic and clicks increase again.
I can say that the other mages in the forum continue to have increasing success, and that gives me assurance that I’m on the right track.
So, sorry this blog has come to a standstill as I get indexed again. Bummer.
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Rose on 10.24.2009
Hi Amy
I found your site via the Mage Forum and have been reading all the really helpful posts you’ve made – I’ve definitely picked up a few tips, thank you!
I’m just about to buy a new hosting account for my Mage sites and was wondering exactly what was the problem you had with SuperGreen? Also, how do you check your usage?
Thanks.
Rose
admin on 10.24.2009
I’m not sure, but I think I loaded too many sites one evening, and used too much translation, and too much forward-dating. Those are easy to pare down. I haven’t had a problem since. To check your CPU usage with them, you have to e-mail support. I think it was a fluke.
Rose on 10.24.2009
Thanks for your reply. I think I will try SuperGreen and see how I get one.