I created the Flat Stanley Project in 1995 and have maintained it as an unpaid volunteer ever since. Last year,
I inadvertently missed GoDaddy’s deadline to switch to Cpanel, and the site was unavailable and compressed into a TAR. I switched from GoDaddy to Bluehost and, after uncompressing, was eventually able to restore the html files.
There was a WordPress site that contained thousands of pictures from kids around the world over many years. Even though I have the WordPress data, Bluehost is unable to connect it to their database. They say I’m missing a file, but I’m guessing it was on GoDaddy’s side.
Bluehost says it’s not possible, but I’m still hopeful there’s a way to restore the pictures and text.
Does anyone have any good news?
Thanks
Dale Hubert
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Do you know what file they claim you’re missing?
What file are they saying is necessary?
How many GB is the site uncompressed?
Definitely important to know what they’ve said is missing. But if all you have is a bunch of photos, a new site could be rebuilt pretty quickly. And if you have a bunch of raw html that could prob be pretty quickly rebuilt into some new pages.
Do you have the database? Thats where all the text and such is stored, so thats usually the most important part if you had lots of text.
And the wp-content folder with uploads/pictures etc?
First off, you created Flat Stanley?!?
I did that project as a kid, then watched my cousins growing up do it as well and pretty sure my kids school does it too!
So, I’ve been developing WordPress for 10 years now, hosting companies aren’t going to put in a lot of effort in fixing it, it’s just not worth their time.
If you have these items tho, you can easily piece together a new instance.
Site database
Theme file
Plugin folder
Uploads folder
If you have all 4 of those, it should be salvageable by someone who knows WP development very well.
I would be happy to take a look if you would like, but I don’t have alot of free time at the moment.