Seo impact on my sites after hostgator shut them down

[ecoverbee20]

Last week all my websites were performing well and most in top 10 of google, but my host shut my sites down as wordpress needed to have a cache plugin.

Checking my stats and it seems that google now shows nothing when I click the cache in google

site:www.domain.com shows the pages but the cache is empty, has anyone had any problems like this and will my sites get their rankings back or will I need to start again and build backlinks.



Thanks
andy

[paulgl]

The SEO impact? The sites are gone. There's no SEO impact as there's nothing
left to impact.

Change hosts ASAP and you may have a prayer.

Do the domains go to a parked page? If not, there's hope.
If they do, and you get it back up fast, it may fly under the radar.

A site "being down" is different than "parked."

Get a new host and get a host that you are on a first name basis with.
Find a local, reliable host. No way do I trust my sites to anyone that I
can't personally talk to. It keeps stuff like this from happening.

Paul

[Carl Pruitt]

Originally Posted by paulgl

The SEO impact? The sites are gone. There's no SEO impact as there's nothing
left to impact.

Change hosts ASAP and you may have a prayer.

Do the domains go to a parked page? If not, there's hope.
If they do, and you get it back up fast, it may fly under the radar.

A site "being down" is different than "parked."

Get a new host and get a host that you are on a first name basis with.
Find a local, reliable host. No way do I trust my sites to anyone that I
can't personally talk to. It keeps stuff like this from happening.

Paul

Hostgator gets the sites going as soon as you install the caching plugin so the sites aren't permanently down.

I have had this happen to me. Hostgator called me to let me know what was happening and what I needed to do about it. I responded promptly, the site was back up within minutes and had no long term SEO effects.

I have found Hostgator to be extremely responsive and helpful. In fact, much more responsive and knowledgeable than local hosts I used before. This type of thing is going to happen every now and then when you use cheaper shared hosting.

[paulgl]

If hostgator shuts you down for that, it seems rather stupid.

If you are on a host that worries about server issues, server loads,
then come on! I can't imagine any logic in forcing you to have a plug in.

I can't believe they would shut down for that reason. I'd be worried about
every site I had on hostgator. What issue would be next?

paul

[TristanPerry]

Originally Posted by paulgl

If hostgator shuts you down for that, it seems rather stupid.

If you are on a host that worries about server issues, server loads,
then come on! I can't imagine any logic in forcing you to have a plug in.

I can't believe they would shut down for that reason. I'd be worried about
every site I had on hostgator. What issue would be next?

paul

A shared host which *doesn't* worry about these issues is actually a sign of a bad host.

Would you prefer that users could really slow down (or even crash) a server, with the host doing nothing?

There's a reason HostGator and other hosts monitor their servers (i.e. because in a shared hosting environment, one customer can slow down the server for every other site on the server)

Seriously, pretty much any half-decent shared host does this exact same thing?

[ecoverbee20]

The sites are all back up and running but I was away for 3 days so they were down for those days.

some of my sites are still in page 1. Hostgator have been good and responded very quick.

THanks
andy

[WilliamBerg]

The rest should bump back in a week or two.

But it is always good to consider a dedicated server when your income permits and warrants it.

[ecoverbee20]

thanks for the answers. Hopefully they will come back in a few weeks without me doing anything.

I should have listened a while back when people say only put 20 sites on 1 shared host.

I've now learned the hardway how true it is and not to put all my eggs in one basket

Thanks
andy