Freshbot bites

and ouchies ouchies ouchies

[kevinpate]

Little ol NFP informational site, sitting well in SERPS, feeling good, until the teeth broke the flesh, so to speak.

Early on 27th, for first time in the ten months at the current host, bandwidth ceiling was hit.

Bada bing, Bada boom.
Hard lesson learned ... if it's the 25th and you're close to bandwidth ceiling, do NOT, repeat, do NOT, make the naive mistake I did and think, "only 3 more days in Feb, we'll just slip under the wire."
Bada bing, Bada boom.
I got busy on Thursday (so did the site it seems) and site crashed headfirst into a bandwidth brick wall. "Oh well, only 30 hours left in the month, no biggie, just ride it out."

Bada bing, bada boom.
Second hard lesson learned .... never, ever assume only a few folks, if any, will notice... I finally got caught up on emails today. "oh well, everything is back to normal, no real harm done ... fortunately, it's all behind me now.

Bada bing, bada boom.
Third hard lesson learned ....
If Freshbot should visit when there is a 509 Bandwidth Exceeded error page replacing your main page, well, guess what gets put in the cache and in Alllllllllllllllll the google supplied SERP's in the exact same position where your main page and description USED TO appear?
Here's a hint, it ain't purty!

Oh well, as we often discuss with our scouts and Venturers, there are no failures ... only hard lessons learned on the road to improvementville.

Anyways, now that I went and cybershot my big toe off, anyone gots a big ol' bandaid I can use?

[NotePad]

ouch

[troels nybo nielsen]

Write a good article about it! It should get you loads of visitors. ;)

Welcome to Webmaster World, NotePad. Don't worry, Kevin's not a typical member.

[NotePad]

thanks for the welcomw, i've been lurking for the past few days, and i've learned alot...especially bout mistakes i didn't know i was making, like orphaned pages etc

all this talk of the impending update has really motivated me to get my site in order..

thanks for the great site :D

[freejung]

Kevin, surely this is not a major disaster, right, I mean, freshbot will be back soon enough I expect, it's been out a lot lately, I think you'll be OK. When freshbot returns, your current versions should be put back in. The real problem happens when you get caught out during the deep crawl!

[kevinpate]

Oh, the post was as much personal therapy, and a light hearted warning to others like me - the greener than popeye's spinach crowd - as it was anything. Had I done this to the site during a deep crawl, there'd been no posting ... I'd be far too busy out back introducing my noggin to a ball peen hammer to have time for typing lol.