Title: Site dissappeared
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Site dissappeared

 *  [dv8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dv8/)
 * (@dv8)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-dissappeared/)
 * A site I made completely vanished today. Long story short, I built the site for
   a friend, he had it hosted on his hosting account (One Web Hosting). They are
   terrible (site was always down), so I said I could put it on my account. The 
   nameservers where changed yesterday. Today I added the domain to my cpanel.
 * Site worked fine today.
 * When I was in the wordpress dashboard, I updated 4 plugins. Once they updated,
   there were 2 errors from the one plugin, wp security. That plugin always shows
   an error message, so I didn’t pay much attention to it.
 * Anyway, a few minutes later, I went to the site and all I got was an index of/
   page with the only file being the cgi-bin. Going to the domain/wp-admin would
   give a 500 internal server error.
 * Went into an FTP program and that’s when it dawned on me, that is the ONLY file.
   Everything else is gone. Literally, everything.
 * And no, I don’t have a backup. Dumb, I know.
 * If I go to the domain now, sometimes it shows the screen I mentioned above and
   sometimes it shows the homepage BUT with no formatting…as if there is no theme
   selected. Not sure how it sometimes shows content and sometimes doesn’t.
 * Am I screwed? Seems apparent I am since there are no files, but again, why does
   it show some content?
 * Any input is appreciated…even if it’s to confirm that I’m out of luck.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-dissappeared/#post-3939458)
 * Have you contacted your hosts? sounds like something went badly wrong on their
   server and, with luck, they will have a backup.
 *  Thread Starter [dv8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dv8/)
 * (@dv8)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-dissappeared/#post-3939467)
 * I just emailed them. Not sure if they will since it was just added to my account.
 * I’m going to see if his old host has any backups.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [dv8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dv8/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-dissappeared/#post-3939467)
 * Status: not resolved

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