The biggest fear of webmasters - besides being hacked - is the fear that the website becomes unavailable and that all visitors will see the dreaded “Cannot connect” message in the browser. This is extremely harmful especially when you are a full time webmaster whose life (literally) depends on those websites.
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We have all made the experience in the past that many websites are not available all the time. A website that got on Digg’s homepage or slashdotted might have went down pretty fast which is unfortunately if you want to read what the buzz that it created was all about. I normally bookmark those websites and visit them again later to see if the website is available again. If it is not I try it a few more times and if it is not up at that point I either forget about it or delete the bookmark.

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