my squarespace site expired

Don’t let your squarespace site expire if you want to keep the content!

Squarespace can trash your website after 30days after its expiry date.
In most cases, I have found they generally keep it for approx 3 months, but then after that it’s been lost.

I learnt this the hard way recently when I designed a website for a landscape designer. He loved it but we weren’t quite ready to launch it yet. He wanted to get more photos.

I logged back in to the site, because dangling like a carrot, it’s still there in my dashboard. I paid the subscription assuming the content would be available and it’s all blank. No pages, no indexes, no photos. Nada!

That little tick box that we all tick when creating a website with Squarespace allows them to follow through this deletion. After all, they can’t keep every website someone creates - their must be millions and their servers would be overrun hence slowing up all the live sites!

Simply downgrade to monthly hosting if it’s a money thing.

My message is simple… If you want to eventually keep your website and content, simply downgrade to the lowest available hosting and keep it.

Maybe your business has taken a hold or maybe you have shut down but plan to open up somewhere else.

Design a lock screen / holding page
For as little as AU$16 / US$12 you can simply create a lock screen holding page so no one can access the information in your site.