I have numerous little websites scattered around sometimes with just half a dozen or so pages of content on them. I sometimes set them up, add the content and then simply forget about them for months on end.
Doing my checks on some of these sites last night I found 3 of them were offline and just had an easyspace landing page on them. I quickly logged in to my account at easyspace to find all 3 no longer had hosting despite never receiving any warnings that any were close to expiring.
I don’t know how long the sites have been offline but noticed one of them which was previously top 5 in google for a number of phrases was no longer there.
I quickly added them to my reseller hosting account at CS New media, changed the nameservers and loaded them up.
Don’t know yet what damage has been done by them being offline, and hope the rankings come straight back.
It is a lesson to keep an eye on things a bit more often and I may even consider using some kind of monitoring system.
