dv8trade

If it was me I’d build a WordPress from a one-button installer

Updraft plus is what I used for the back-up I have, but as far as your instructions above go, I’m at a loss. I have no idea what “building a WordPress from a one-button installer” means. Once again, I have zero experience in this field.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by dv8trade.

> You might try restoring it on a new WordPress instance just to see…

Could you explain how to do that or, if it’s complex, send me a link to instructions, a YouTube video or whatever helps? I’m sorry, but I’m really clueless as far as this stuff goes…

It’s online quite a bit of the time, then offline again (like now). I did access it earlier this week. I have a back-up (regular back-up, not one for migration) from a month or two ago.
Again the one question you (generic you, meaning you or others here in the forum) might be able to answer: As long as the site is online, is it relatively easy to re-build it or is that almost the same effort as building it from scratch?
I am not able to do it myself, i.e. have no knowledge whatsoever with building websites. My main concern is loosing customers and the modest advances I have made on Google, as I have built up a bit of a following during the two years the site was working OK. I now had several people contact me saying the site isn’t working and/or they were getting the security warning due to the lapsed SSL certificate.

If there is nothing I can do, would “re-building” the site be a fast and easy job as long as it’s online or is that just as much work as building it from scratch?
I have my own hosting with Bluehost now and also another domain which could be used to build/re-build the site.
Not having the necessary knowledge. I imagine something like a “complicated copy and paste” procedure when I write “re-building”, but that might be complete nonsense…

Thanks for the reply.

I don’t have access to the server. I have access to the domain. He bought the SSL certificate and installed it, I just refunded the cost. I have been in contact with that company, but they can’t help me as I have no server access.

The owner of the WP Multisite built the website for me and hosted it together with his sites on that Google cloud server. The server started to have problems about 3 months ago. I contacted him and he said that the server has developed problems and that I’ll have to get my own hosting because he’ll have to shut it down. I did that, but when I contacted him to get the site migrated, he did not reply and no reply till then (now two months).