Ok, now I'm doing the "Snoopy dance," you know the flying-feet image of pure glee; I have managed to restore the backup and the file structure for my original mojo.crypticsites.net, but now it's at http://crypticsites.net -- I put a "Sorry, server died, pls try later" msg at the default page for the mojo.crypticsites.net site, so at least those who've been hitting "resource not found" pages for the last 3 days have some idea what's going on.  *WHEW!*  Once I get the skins site updated to 2.3.5.5, I'll put another explanation and a timed redirect to the new site. Yes, that's a very happy face!! (and tired, after uploading and whatnot all night!)

I finally got a message back from Mocha, pleading for more patience, but I have already initiated the transfer of registrar for one domain, and changed nameservers for most of the others I've had there at Mocha; I've been visiting a lot of "current events" and humor pages recently, courtesy of Digg, mostly, and making comments, and digs, and facebook shares and likes, and it's starting to pay off a little, at my blog site, and the terrific links you guys have given my skins site has been a really consistent traffic source also, so you can just imagine how thrilled I was to know all this incoming traffic was hitting that old "not found" page.    So no, patience was exhausted last night, when it hit 72 hrs and still down, and still nothing from them about it.  I'll also be making a BBB report about it, because it really would be good if I could recoup any part of that year's investment, but if nothing else, let some future potential hosting customer beware of them and their low-ball prices.  You pretty much do get what you pay for -- I extol Hobersoft all the time for my linux hosting, but I pay them about $83-$85 a year, depending on the strength of the dollar vs the euro -- in 2009 it was about $87!

I really appreciate all the assistance; you guys are the best resource a web geek could ask for!  The pointer to Arvixe is certainly welcome, and I did put in a mention of mojoportal.com (and Rick Hubka) in my sign-up form, if that's helpful to you guys at all.  I note they have a good deal for the inclusion of a link back to Arvixe, so I'll be taking part in that, for sure.

Andria

I have a bit of a problem, which I've created a trouble-ticket for, at Arvixe, but I haven't heard anything from them yet; I'm wondering if they either don't know what I'm talking about, or the solution is so obvious they can't believe I haven't figured it out for myself.

As I said, I got my old original 2.3.4.3 restored, and it was working fine.  Then, when I was about to do the version upgrade, I thought, hmm, I should get the 4.0-deployment version.  So, I downloaded that version, but before uploading it, I went ahead and turned on the "4.0 integrated pipeline" -- which promptly threw me an error, and which now prevents me from doing anything at all with that site on that domain, without throwing that same error.  I have to wonder, if I went ahead and uploaded the 4.0-deployment of the new version, if that would fix it.  I don't know though, because with this error, I can't even reach http://crypticsites.net on the www, it gives a server 500 error, so I don't know if I would be able to run the Setup to upgrade to the newer version.  I asked Arvixe if they could set the website on that domain back to 2.0 integrated, but as I said, haven't heard from them, don't know if they even understand the problem which I, alas, caused for myself.

Andria

Yes, they reset it to 2.0 integrated; then I kept getting "can't find server" msgs, and they found that somehow an "A Record" (whatever that is) had gotten deleted, so they fixed that, and then it worked again.

So, then I tried again to do the upgrade to 2.3.5.5 (this time using the regular 3.5-deployment files), did the upload, edited the web.config and user.config and uploaded those -- and now I get server error 500.  WAHHHHHH!   I was able to upgrade another of my early 2.3.4.3 sites just fine, so I think I know how to do it, so I dunno what the problem might be.  Maybe it's those permissions you mentioned in a recent post; I forgot about them, and and came back here to find the link to that information -- would that cause a server error 500, if those weren't set properly?  I think, with a Perl script on Linux, if the various chmod settings aren't set correctly, it also causes a server error 500 -- which I think is the server version of "HUH?!?"

*sigh*

Andria