I would sincerely appreciate any help or advice that anyone can offer me!
My family and I recently suffered a devastating tragedy when we lost my dad after a horrible accident. He fell off a 12ft. ladder and unfortunately didn't make it. This was completely unexpected and none of us were anywhere near prepared for something like this to happen. That being said, my dad left us with a lot of things we have to now figure out how to deal with and take care of. My family and I have a very successful home based business that provides us with most of our income. My dad took care of many things regarding the business by himself. For reasons unknown, he never took the time to teach us how to do or take care of certain things. Now that he is gone, my mom and I are left with the issue of trying to figure all the things out so they can be taken care of and the business, along with our lives, can get back to running smoothly like before. My main problem right now that I need immediate help with is our website for the business. My dad always did everything to do with the website. I am 26yrs old and pretty good with computers and many computer programs. I am also a pretty quick learner. But at the moment I'm really struggling with trying to figure this stuff out with the website. Our business website had also been set up with individual email accounts for each of us as well. Those email accounts are one of the main communication methods we have for the business. Last week we noticed that when we tried to go access our email, a message appeared when we typed in the URL. The message read: "Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site. We cannot connect to the server." Same message appeared when I typed the URL for our business website. So I have come to the conclusion that my dad must have been paying monthly or something for Web Hosting, and since he is now gone, it hasn't been payed for and therefore is not live or connected. I know almost nothing about Web Hosting and website publishing or developing. If I knew the name of the Web Hosting company or site, I would imagine I could contact them and pay to get it all up and running again. I cant find anything in my dad's things that would tell me the name of the company or site. So please, I would sincerely appreciate anyone that could help me and inform me if there is anyway I can figure out the hosting to a site that is no longer live. Any advice about anything else that could possibly help me along in this frustrating process would also be greatly appreciated. If I don't get our website and email back up and running, our business will start doing very bad and like I mentioned before, our business is our main source of income. Thanks for taking the time to read!
-Lauren
My family and I recently suffered a devastating tragedy when we lost my dad after a horrible accident. He fell off a 12ft. ladder and unfortunately didn't make it. This was completely unexpected and none of us were anywhere near prepared for something like this to happen. That being said, my dad left us with a lot of things we have to now figure out how to deal with and take care of. My family and I have a very successful home based business that provides us with most of our income. My dad took care of many things regarding the business by himself. For reasons unknown, he never took the time to teach us how to do or take care of certain things. Now that he is gone, my mom and I are left with the issue of trying to figure all the things out so they can be taken care of and the business, along with our lives, can get back to running smoothly like before. My main problem right now that I need immediate help with is our website for the business. My dad always did everything to do with the website. I am 26yrs old and pretty good with computers and many computer programs. I am also a pretty quick learner. But at the moment I'm really struggling with trying to figure this stuff out with the website. Our business website had also been set up with individual email accounts for each of us as well. Those email accounts are one of the main communication methods we have for the business. Last week we noticed that when we tried to go access our email, a message appeared when we typed in the URL. The message read: "Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site. We cannot connect to the server." Same message appeared when I typed the URL for our business website. So I have come to the conclusion that my dad must have been paying monthly or something for Web Hosting, and since he is now gone, it hasn't been payed for and therefore is not live or connected. I know almost nothing about Web Hosting and website publishing or developing. If I knew the name of the Web Hosting company or site, I would imagine I could contact them and pay to get it all up and running again. I cant find anything in my dad's things that would tell me the name of the company or site. So please, I would sincerely appreciate anyone that could help me and inform me if there is anyway I can figure out the hosting to a site that is no longer live. Any advice about anything else that could possibly help me along in this frustrating process would also be greatly appreciated. If I don't get our website and email back up and running, our business will start doing very bad and like I mentioned before, our business is our main source of income. Thanks for taking the time to read!
-Lauren