shtagoneba.ge

The site was gone. No database, no theme, no backup.

shtagoneba.ge had been a WordPress site for years, and Google still sent it traffic. Then the install was lost, with no backup and no copy in the Wayback Machine. What survived was a copy of its public data: 292 posts, 10 pages and 199 images. Google still had 359 of its addresses indexed, and in the 16 months before, those pages had earned 63,463 clicks.

• Rebuilt it without WordPress. Plain pages: fast, cheap to host, no plugins to update.
• Kept every address. Every old link works again: 340 directly and 19 through redirects. None are missing.
• Restored the content word for word. The articles are the originals. The ten pages were rebuilt by hand with their original text.
• Remade what was lost. 108 article covers existed nowhere, so we made new ones in the site’s own illustration style.

Every old link works again.

The same addresses, the same articles, on a site that is fast and cheap to host.