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Looks like your site is hosted by DreamHost.com, so maybe check with them. Also, maybe check with the other coadmin(s). cPanel does not actually live on your PC, it lives at your host and you log into it – your host and/or coadmins(s) may be able to provide the needed info. Your nature retreat looks absolutely gorgeous, but the way.

The first thing I would do is make at least a couple of backups using different methods, for example Duplicator, Updraft +, cPanel, and/or manual db and file backups. Using multiple methods would give me peace of mind in case I screw one up. Next, I would consider changing hosts because upgrading to a dedicated server just to update PHP makes absolutely no sense. Many hosts have a PHP version selector right in the control panel, so I can choose any version I want whenever I want.

Thanks for responding bcworkz. I am nearly certain I was not logged into WP when checking the headers – but will check again to be sure. I checked htaccess – this is a new install so nothing there but the bare-bones stuff that WP and litespeed cache put in – did not see anything to do with no-cache headers.

By default Cloudflare caches static resources such as images, CSS, and JavaScript, but not HTML. Also, Cloudflare will only keep your resources cached if your page is accessed frequently (they don’t disclose exactly how frequently). So, your web host still matters when it comes to site speed. Some suggestions … if you are not already doing so, use a caching plugin. I like LiteSpeed cache if you are on a LiteSpeed server, otherwise Comet Cache – there are other good ones as well. If your HTML is fairly stable – not a lot of frequent comments or e-commerce, for example – consider a CloudFlare page rule to “cache everything”. Are you bumping up against your shared hosting limits for bandwidth or CPU use or something else? If not, your host’s upsell suggestion to pay more for VPS would cause me to immediately shop for new hosting. Researchasahobby.com does a great job of monitoring/evaluating speed and uptime of some of the popular hosts.

What is your url?

You could use a CDN like Cloudflare for caching.

This is not a solution but might provide a clue – if I add a # to the url your contact form seems to work (https://aviaconconsulting.com/contact-us/#)

Hi Joy, thanks for your prompt reply.

You are correct, I don’t really keep track too carefully about whether functionality is coming from core or a plugin. I clicked Tools – Site Health – Troubleshooting tab – Enable Troubleshooting.

There was no error message. The Classic Editor plugin consistently declined to activate or to indicate that it was activated.

Your advice to ask in Theme support (Responsive Mobile from CyberChimps) is appreciated. I will try that.

Yep, you can try out CF with a free account with absolutely no strings. You can leave CF whenever you want. I suspect you will find it awesome and never leave.

I block /wp_admin except for /wp_admin/admin-ajax.php, and except for my IPs. I also block: /wp-login.php (since I change my login url); /xmlrpc.php (since I don’t make use of it); php files in /wp-content/uploads; and /wp-config.php.

AFAIK, other than maybe xmlrpc.php, my blocking would do little to thwart a DDoS attack – but I see a lot of bad-bot-blocks in my firewall log.

If you are not using Cloudflare you may want to give it a try. Even on the free tier Cloudflare provides tools to help you overcome a DDoS attack. See https://community.cloudflare.com/t/under-ddos-attack-first-steps/89476

Respectfully, you are using a tool for something it was not intended. InDesign is a page layout tool for printed material. Sounds like you have found work-arounds to get content from InDesign into WordPress and that’s awesome – good for you. But … ya can’t expect it to be smooth or easy.

What is the URL for the missing page?
“I didn’t touch anything” – are you sure? Are you the only site admin? Did anything change outside of WP, like in cPanel or htaccess or firewall or … anywhere?

Hi atizaf, what happened – configuration change or something? – before this error began? Have you tried switching to a 20-something theme? Do you have a backup from before the error manifested that you can restore?

Your home page is trying to load https://filmicsite.com/”https:/i1.wp.com/filmicsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Roma-2018-movie-cast.jpg?fit=640%2C320″

If I remove the quote marks and the https://filmicsite.com/ the image loads fine. You could probably correct this in the source code, if the images are not too numerous.

Boed1 – https matters. The amount that it matters is going to keep increasing, so ya gotta go there sooner or later – might as well be sooner.

James – I am far from an expert on any of this so I might be way off base here … My understanding is when it comes to speed the question is not http vs. https but rather legacy HTTP vs. modern HTTP/2. HTTP/2 uses more efficient mechanisms for data streaming, and is much faster than HTTP. While there is no rule preventing plain text HTTP/2, browsers and other applications only support secure HTTP/2. So, in practice, https is faster.

I get a similar error. Moderator Marius let me know that since I also get a warning relating to the website loopbacks, the error could be incorrect. Is your site updating properly? If so, I would relax.