Hello! owenkits,
I can imagine how you feel and I would love to help.
I have no experience with sites on ipage so this limits my scope here.
In my experience, it was on wordpress that I deactivated the file not on Filezilla. This may be the reason for the entire missing files.
I hope someone from wp can help. Please keep us posted too.
Yes, I was busy and away from my websites for about a week.
It would have been valuable in saving time and frustration to have understood that this may cause problems if one was away from the websites.
Now that I have found this out the hard way, it sounds easy to identify as the problem. I am hoping there are no more surprising ones around the corner.
Thank you