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Originally posted by f69j69b
my site was just down for the past 24 hours. I have been busting my butt for 8 months 5 to 6 free sites a week and last month was the first month that I made enough money in one month to pay all my bills. now this down time which i had no control over and my 2 top traffic sources pull all my sites 
I think I am starting to understand why there are so many cheating webmasters I mean you bust your butt finally start to make a little money then your hosting service is down for a 24 hour period and half of what you worked for the past 8 months is gone just like that
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Yah man, I can relate. This time last year we were down for 5 days. Shit I thought I was going to lose my mind. Once everything was up and running again, we just picked up where we left off. My best advice when you have a situation like this (which does happen occasionally) is not to stress hard about it. There is just nothing that you can do (as a control freak this was a lesson that was hard to learn), but once you accept that you feel a lot better, and you know everything will be fine in a short matter of time.
As for webmasters who cheat; I don't really understand it at all. We all share the internet, and webmasters who cheat to get ahead with browser redirects, java/ms exploits etc, only hurt us all. I feel the consumer is the most important aspect and that gets lost sometimes in this business, but being in sales for 10 years previous I learned the people who pay our bills is who we ultimately answer to. If we lose their trust they will go somewhere else, or do something else.