So basically website that started making mi $100 month was deleted last night by my accident, while i was setting up new i tried reinstalling os and accidentally reinstalled on old website, lost almost all data. Found out old backup that had like 5-10% of content but without images so i also had to add images myself...
Accidentally deleted my website
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wiaderny01
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Try restoring the content via web.archive.org.
Get daily backups off site to cloud storage, going forward.
seomaster5
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This is a lesson for all BHW members. we should take daily backup for important websites.
paisawaisa
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- Mar 23, 2022
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You can find the articles and everything on wayback machine. Restore it before someone else does this.
i will try
it doesnt unfortunatly
Bro thank you so much, I literally opened ticket about backup and they answered and showed me where it is, now site is back running. Thanks.
roydan
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That's great news.
Just don't rely on their backups, have you own, too.
- Sep 7, 2017
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You should know the structure of your content/articles. Take note of their respective URLs, it's very vital.
Assuming you're not responsible for your site data. Most hosts backup your site for you. Only ones you manage yourself na VPS you're responsible for.
Recreate your site. Recreate the content in the same/similar structure and ensure the URLs are the same. Do thos as soon as possible. It would feel like nothing happened. You've learnt your lessons. Next time, try storing you articles on Google drive. I do this for most articles.
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Yep, exactly what he says. Could have been a lot more expensive lesson.
I will make it right now, thanks again i was literally checking earlier today and couldnt find backups, and now i found it.
yeah its free but i couldnt find it earlier today so now i back uped and it all works
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Yes, they have backups but there is minor chance that it might not be available. That is why for earnings sites you should also take backup.
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Yes, but sometimes they don´t work. Take your own backups.
hideath
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Happened to me once,
It would need some harsh work but you can get most of the old content if it's an old one,
First start by rebuilding it using the same plugins, theme, etc...
Next head over web archive and start reposting the old posts one by one,
Make sure to use the old dates while doing so to avoid any conflicts with the big G,
If you can't find any old posts content in the way back machine, head over caching version in Google by adding "cache:" before the URL,
If you can't find any cached version in both of them, go with similar content optimised over the same topic/keywords,
Lastly, make sure to implement backups with every website in the future,
Using g drive, Aws or any other similar established one would be always safer as they store multiple versions of it,
I got mine deleted with the ovh fire happening back in days, so even local could be affected and less secure,
better be safe than sorry
It would need some harsh work but you can get most of the old content if it's an old one,
First start by rebuilding it using the same plugins, theme, etc...
Next head over web archive and start reposting the old posts one by one,
Make sure to use the old dates while doing so to avoid any conflicts with the big G,
If you can't find any old posts content in the way back machine, head over caching version in Google by adding "cache:" before the URL,
If you can't find any cached version in both of them, go with similar content optimised over the same topic/keywords,
Lastly, make sure to implement backups with every website in the future,
Using g drive, Aws or any other similar established one would be always safer as they store multiple versions of it,
I got mine deleted with the ovh fire happening back in days, so even local could be affected and less secure,
better be safe than sorry
Black Belt Spodermen
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This happened to me when I was earning $500 per month and I was crying on the floor 
However, I started the site the same night and wrote 7 articles per day and lost almost no traffic because I had 68 articles at that time.
However, I started the site the same night and wrote 7 articles per day and lost almost no traffic because I had 68 articles at that time.