Pause a site and resume it later

breakcode said:

Hi!

I would like to pause a project that consists of a site that has already started, I would like to stop paying for the host but still keep the domain.

When I go to pick up the project, what happens?
All my articles will be deindexed right?
If so, will it be possible to bring them back to where they are?

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breakcode said:

When I go to pick up the project, what happens?
All my articles will be deindexed right?
If so, will it be possible to bring them back to where they are?

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NirvanaWolf said:

Move it to a bare minimum cheap shared hosting instead of taking it off completely.

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SirLouen said:

They will give you a little time extension depending on the hosting (some could be 1 or 2 weeks, others 1 or 2 months)

During that period your content will be there waiting for your payment. When you pay, they will restore everything for you the same you had it before.

In case you waste the extension time, then they will proceed to remove your data

All articles will be removed, site will be removed 100%
You will be left with nothing about your site

The only solution to about losing your data is that you perform a backup right now and then restore it in the future. Although there could be a chance that Archive.org bot crawled your site entirely or partially therefore you could be fetching data from there but it's really tedious, 0% recommended. In case you are planing to halt your site for a long time, best option is backup hands down.

When Google goes to your site, it will find an error 5XX meaning that the site is down. Google will keep going back for a couple of weeks. At certain point, Google (there is no rule of time here) will decide that your site is dead forever, and will deindex everything.

At that point, if you restore your site with the backup, you will need to reindex everything from scratch with the consequent loss of traffic and searches compared to what you are having right now.

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breakcode said:

Thanks for the idea! I will consider proceeding in this way, at least saving.



Very comprehensive answer as always!
So you can't practically stop the site and resume it in a year, there is the risk of losing everything that has already been done.

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SirLouen said:

They will give you a little time extension depending on the hosting (some could be 1 or 2 weeks, others 1 or 2 months)

During that period your content will be there waiting for your payment. When you pay, they will restore everything for you the same you had it before.

In case you waste the extension time, then they will proceed to remove your data

All articles will be removed, site will be removed 100%
You will be left with nothing about your site

The only solution to about losing your data is that you perform a backup right now and then restore it in the future. Although there could be a chance that Archive.org bot crawled your site entirely or partially therefore you could be fetching data from there but it's really tedious, 0% recommended. In case you are planing to halt your site for a long time, best option is backup hands down.

When Google goes to your site, it will find an error 5XX meaning that the site is down. Google will keep going back for a couple of weeks. At certain point, Google (there is no rule of time here) will decide that your site is dead forever, and will deindex everything.

At that point, if you restore your site with the backup, you will need to reindex everything from scratch with the consequent loss of traffic and searches compared to what you are having right now.

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kalpana007 said:

So better to start a fresh blog than continuing on old project.

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breakcode said:

Hi!

I would like to pause a project that consists of a site that has already started, I would like to stop paying for the host but still keep the domain.

When I go to pick up the project, what happens?
All my articles will be deindexed right?
If so, will it be possible to bring them back to where they are?

Click to expand...