Concerns over the Albanian Online Bookstore

ShtepiaeLibrit.com - Albanian Online BookstoreOn Thursday (12 Feb.), the Albanian Online Bookstore – ShtepiaeLibrit.com was unavailable for almost the whole day. This was very worrying to me because the problem was rather technical and the decision was made by the technicians of the hosting company. It took a few exchanges of messages to clarify the situation, before the issue got toward the way of getting solved.

Meanwhile, I’m sure customers or visitors going to the site yesterday must have wondered what was going on and there was almost no way to reach them. Today I placed an apology on the main page to let them know that everything is back to normal.

Another reason why this was concerning to me was because only a few days ago, on February 10th, 2009, we celebrated the 1st year anniversary of the bookstore. And obviously this would not be good publicity for anyone, especially if you are the biggest online store of Albanian books with over 10,000 visitors a month. And that is something to be proud of!

Oh, and something else. Now we have an English Blog called the Albanian Book House Blog, which I think should be of value to our English speaking visitors. It will not as many posts as the Albanian Blog, but nevertheless it is there to help improve the communication and information for our vistors.

What I’ve learned
I’ve learned that despite the fact that the general idea is that websites most often don’t break down, the fact is that they do. Like anything else which gets used a lot, sooner or later it is destined to break down or have some king of a problem. The main issue is preparing for such times and doing backups regularly.

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the Albanian Blogger

Elvis is an Albanian entrepreneur and freelancer, creator and primary contributor behind AlbanianBlogger.com

He is passionate about what he does on and offline, and wants to be a positive influence on the people he comes in contact with. His desire is to experience life and true friendship, and share the best with everyone.

Since 1998 he has established an ever growing list of ventures, much beloved among which are: Sfida.Pro  and SfidaBiznesi.com and ShtepiaeLibrit.com - libraria ime! He has served as webmaster and digital marketing consultant for names such as: Gazeta-Shqip.com - WVI.org/Albania - Lajmifundit.com - Facilization.com - WebHost.al - CityParkAlbania.com - etc, etc.

This Blog was started in September 2004. You can see his professional profile here or contact him directly through his email: eplaku (at) gmail.com

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