BigDave - 2:19 am on May 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Stephan,

This would be a good lesson to eveyone about depending on that single source for your income.

Every single month there are a huge number of sites that do not make it into google for reasons that are not the fault of the webmaster. Your host could be down, or the site that provides the majority of your incoming links could be down. Or google can decide that a dark blue background with yellow block letters is just to SPAMmy.

You have to be prepared to miss some months sometimes. In this case it's only going to be a couple of weeks.

A close friend of mine has one of those sites that has totally disappeared. He's going to be hurting more and more as this update moves to the datacenters until his site reappears. He has a sick baby and is just buying a new house. He also spent much of his 20s living on the street. He learned his lesson and has a 6 month cash reserve.

He also works hard on keeping his repeat business and is planning on starting a couple of new sites to diversify.

He's not happy about being out, but he will survive. So should you if you planned for this sort of thing.