Graphic/Web Design Blog

I manually back up my data monthly, but recently my webhost lost all their servers. How does one recover from such a tragedy? Painstakingly slow, that’s how.  I have 4 of 5 sites back online, but was unable to recover the latest design of my portfolio site. Uploading backups take along time, and they may not be the most current data.

I for one have learned a valuable lesson, and others should back up sites frequently (especially if you made them for someone else), and never rely on a webhost as a safety net.

I get about 5-10 hits per day from a robot named

InternetSeer
with ip address: 65.36.241.79 and user agent: InternetSeer.com

This robot monitors the uptime of your website and emails you if it is down or slow. But how did it get my email? Internetseer like many other web monitoring sites receive their sites through third party sites.

I am sure they started monitoring when I signed up my site at a submit your site to 100 search engines site.

Regardless, this robot does not harm your site and removing it may cause an annoying abundance of emails telling you they cannot access your site. I tried blocking the ip address once and it came back 1 month later with a new ip address.

You can usually contact internetseer.com or any other web monitoring site and they will tell you how they obtained your site and how to unsubscribe.