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I’ve used BlueHost for several years. I host about 13 WordPress sites. Never had any slowness. They have incredible service with 24-7 usa phone support too.

Your original posts are probably intact. They are sitting in a SQL database.

But having installed a new blog, you created a new database.

In your wp-config.php file are some settings that point to the database you want to use.

All you need to figure out is: What is the name of the database you were using when you had it all working?

Then you can do one of 2 things: Use your SQL manager program and transfer the data to the new database you are using currently
OR
Even easier, edit your wp-config file to point to the old database.

You will need to change the following settings in the wp-config.php:

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘HostUser_YourDataBaseName‘);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘HostUser_YourDataBaseUserName‘);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘YourDatabasePassword‘);

If you don’t have your database username and password, you can create new ones in your SQL admin console.

If none of this makes sense, I wrote an easy to understand article about Manually Installing WordPress that explains what I’m talking about.

Scott,

If you can’t find anything wrong with your server setup, here’s another thing you can try.

From what you’ve said, you had your blog working correctly before the update. It looks like you are running WordPress on a windows server (IIS) so you probably did a manual install.

Your admin login is still up is see. Depending on how long you went between installs, I might suggest backing up your wordpress database from the admin console in 2.8 (just in case), backing up your theme and plugin files, deleting your /blog folder, and doing a fresh manual install of the latest version.

If configuring the database in the wp-config.php brings back everything, great. Otherwise make a new sql database, configure it in wp-config.php, run the install script at /wp-admin/install.php and then upload your 2.8 database backup.

Dump your theme and plugin files in. This should get everything running.