I just lost over 28,000 hits (and other stuff)!

zimbop · #1 (**permalink**) 09-22-04, 02:26 PM

My script DMANews had over 28,000 hits, over 300 vistitor votes and maybe 8 or 9 member reviews. I worked hard with promotion etc. to get those and a few minutes ago (after the last update) the whole lot went up in a cloud of smoke and I've fallen from the 3rd to the 9th page.

Whaaa! What's going on! I hope you have a backup of the database!

Seriously though, I've just shot backwards by 2 years, what can I do?

zimbop · #2 (**permalink**) 09-22-04, 02:51 PM

I got that slightly wrong ... it was 26,278 votes!

You can still see that old page cahed at google:

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:F...ws+%2410&hl=en

jsjohnst · #3 (**permalink**) 09-22-04, 04:31 PM

If you check now it should be fixed... We had a small hiccup earlier today with listings which had been updated within the last two weeks. The issue was resolved and everything is back to normal now with no loss of information.

zimbop · #4 (**permalink**) 09-22-04, 05:19 PM

Phew!

Thanks

zimbop · #5 (**permalink**) 09-23-04, 09:37 AM

Sorry to bang on about this but acording to this ...

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:3...hl=en&start=13

I used to have a visitor rating of 4.53 out of 5 for 341 votes.

Now I have a rating of 4.00 out of 5 for 342 votes. Whoever that one last vote came from really didn't like it (!!) or somethings still a bit off center

But really ... no doubt this is something affecting a fair few people and probably deserves looking into.

Many thanks again Jeremy.