When i logged on to my computer this morning and opened my email I was greeted with several emails from potential customers stating that they weren’t able to get to the website I was directing them to yesterday.

At first I thought maybe there was something wrong with the site… you know, too many people trying to view it at the same time and they were getting a ‘page can’t be found’ error because of the load on the server. So I went and checked it.

Internet Explorer was giving me the page can’t be found error

Internet Explorer 404 Error

and FireFox was doing the same…

FireFox404error

I thought, ok, this is weird, so I started checking my other sites.

Same thing…

Ok… this is definitely weird, so I went and tried to log into my webhosting cPanel. Same thing. Nothing there except a ‘page not found’ error.

Alright, things are getting weirder.

So I started contacting some of my buds on skype to ask them to check both my sites and my webhosts site.

Same things for them.

Now I am getting worried. So I started digging through my emails from them to find some sort of contact information. It only took me a few moments to find them.

A few phone call tries confirmed my suspicion.

They had gone out of business.

NOW what???

I have no websites online, no way to access my autoresponder account and no way to get into ftp to see if I can upload anything…

Disastrous!

Well, it could be.

This really didn’t happen, but it is a real possibility that exists in the online world. If you’re not prepared for the worst, you could be out of business.

Or maybe you wouldn’t be.

Leave a comment and let me know your answers to these questions:

Am I out of business now?

What’s the first step you would take to get yourself back up and online?

I look forward to reading your answers.