Anyone who came here on Friday, August 28 may have noticed an error message in place of the usual content. This distressing experience was caused by something getting broken during a (supposedly) routine upgrade to WordPress version 4.3, and it took me a while to figure a way to get the site unbroken again.
Fingers crossed for this not happening again in the future, but one never knows. Thanks for bearing with me.
WordPress caused a denial of service attack? That’s what it looked like to me. Your DNS wouldn’t resolve and using the ip address wouldn’t work either. I thought you forgot to pay your godaddy bill.
Actually it was a code conflict of some sort between the latest version of WordPress and what I guess was an outdated version of a plugin that I wasn’t making active use of. The result was a fatal error that denied access not just to the site but to WordPress controls. The workaround involved deleting the plugin directory inside the WordPress file structure. Simple when you think of it, and I feel stupid for not having thought of it right away.
I don’t host with godaddy, as it happens.