22 Oct, 2008
Recovering Lost Web Pages
Nice title eh? Here is the case.
- You paid for someone to develop a website for you.
- Your website was done (no programming involved) and hosted online.
- For one reason or another, you don't have access to your website anymore. Many cases might lead to this such as problems with the party that developed your website, crash on a server with no backup as well as all sort of other non-professional reasons that might be faced.
You want to recover these lost pages?
The solution is fairly easy.
- Goto http://google.com/
- Type site: followed by your domain name (e.g. site:victorsawma.com) and hit the button
- Google will get you a list of all pages that Google's spider have crawled from your website and saved locally on their servers (Yes. Google has almost all websites saved locally on their servers. This was actually the way Google started as per the creators of Google)
- At the bottom of each entry, you will see a link labeled (cached)
- Click on that link and you will be able to see the cached page from Google's servers.
- Save the page and move to the next page
This can be very helpful in many other cases such as updating website content and then deciding to revert back to old text.
Try it for yourself. The link below will show you all pages from my site that are cached by Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avictorsawma.com
Images, on the other hand, are not cached. As such, you will have to try to get them from somewhere else but at least we have saved the content which matters most. Right?
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