One of the things I can recall my mom saying when I was younger is… “never put all your eggs in one basket”. BTW, this is what it would sound like in her Trini accent.. “neva put all yuh eggs in one basket eh boy”. Earlier this year I had a HUGE issue with my websites and in the back of my head I could hear the egg in the basket saying.

At that time I had all of my websites hosted on a server package I had purchased a couple months back. Not only was it cheaper, but it was easier to manage with having one main server. However, when the server went down all of my websites were down. I’m sure all you webmasters will know that there is no 100% guaranteed uptime. I depend on my websites being active to be able to earn the cheese. So there I was in panic mood, as I checked my sites only to notice that they were all down. No sites no money! It took all of 3 days for them to come back active and this meant lost income.

I learned my lesson… Immediately after, I went out and started to invest in different hosting packages and split my websites one these different servers. It paid off! Last Tuesday the same main server package I originally had went down again, but this time it did not affect my entire list of websites since they were not all hosted on one main server any longer. Though I did loose out on some income, at least it was not a total wipeout!

Hey.. don’t put all your eggs in one basket! Now I have to start backing up everything that’s important.

Have a great weekend.

Chris ….

p.s. did you know that even though the server went down, the company that I have the server account with never once offered to give me some sort of compensation for the down-time?