If you’ve had problems accessing the site, you’re not the only one. 
Here’s the story.
Last week, I found out the owner of the wonderful folks who host most of my websites at AlphaTechOne was sick. Some of you know Wolf from back in the forum days. Ever since I moved the blog over from Free Traffic Directory and closed that site two years ago, I have never been happier with a web host, ever.
So when I got an alert saying that my traffic had tripled in the past few days I thought, the best get-better gift I ever got was knowing that I’d keep getting new business while I was sick. So I upgraded to semi-dedicated account.
But, busy bee that I am, I didn’t read the email that told me that I needed to set up new nameservers. Duh! So That made me think that there would only be momentary blink-out of the sites, as they were being moved, when actually, since they zipped up the site and moved it for me on the server, there shouldn’t have been any down time at all.
Think I caught a clue? Nope, too busy. Therefore, anyone whose ISP doesn’t cache sites immediately couldn’t see those two sites, and over time, no one could get to them, even me.
The problem is fixed as of 15 minutes ago. Sorry if it caused you a problem.
The thing that made me too busy to notice is an influx in new business in other parts of my other two companies. It looks like I am going to have my hands full for the rest of the summer. So in the meantime, now that I’ve got all that happening, I started thinking, what happens with Free Traffic Tips?
I have decided that I’m gong to lock up the archives and in a week or so, cut off the search function and block them from being spidered. You’ll still be able to access new posts freely, and individual posts will still be available in the search engines. But I’ve got to slow some of my growth and that means that apart from small projects, I’m not taking on any new business until I decide what direction I’m moving in.
Does that mean the end of Free Traffic Tips? Maybe. I haven’t gotten that far. Maybe I’ll sell it. Maybe I’ll just make it part of Traffic Reality. Just don’t know yet. I was thinking about adding a section with articles back into the front of the site so folks could submit articles. But it’s to the point that I’m too busy to do the weekly Zero Cost Traffic Ezine, and blog at Free Traffic Tips on any regular basis, and Traffic Reality, and maintain my AdSense sites, and have my entrepreneur clients and my corporate clients, and serve everyone to the best of my ability.
When you are so happily busy that you don’t notice your flagship site is down for a whole day – yeah. Time to re-evaluate.
So that’s what’s up. I know that was mostly a big “I don’t know what’s next” kind of thing, but better you guys are prepared for my possible departure, rapid expansion of my team, or whatever may come. This time next week, I might find an apprentice and say “never mind”. Or I’ll hire another assistant.
If I should decide to sell or fully archive Free Traffic Tips or make some other big change, there will be at least one more newsletter before I do. And I’ll continue to do a newsletter at Zero Cost Traffic but it will be way different after this next issue if I decide on going down another stream. And I’ll still be around. I’ll just be doing something else.
I’m going to be out until Tuesday. Any posts between now and then won’t be live. If you need to talk to me before then, you can leave me a message here or if it’s a question related to a product you have, remember to use the priority support email so me or my team can answer you quickly. Danka!
