I had someone build my website www.mesquitehomeparade.com using DNN about 2 years ago. Everything has been running great, but now the site has progressively begun running slower. Read some help file that suggest clearing the event log. When I try to access the event log there is no "clear events" button at the bottom of the page as I had read. After reading more help files, i beleive i may not be the "host". My log on and everything i see says "administrator".  Can anyone lend some ideas why the clear button wont show up, or how to retreive or set up a new host without losing the website. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

DNN has both Host and Administrator type of user accounts. When signed in as a Host you should see both the Admin and Host menus. If logged in as an Administrator, you will just see the Admin menu. There is no way for an Admin to become/add a Host.

Strategies I can think of:
- redouble your attempts to locate/get the username/password for a Host account with the site.
- Backup the entire site - This won't directly let you become host. But it will give you greater latitude to experiment on the site.
- Search to see if you have editing access to the web site database, if so, you might be able to add a host account that way.
- Explore whether you, as an Admin, can create a web site TEMPLATE, and then import that into a new site - where you do know the Host account name and password. This way much of the site may transfer over - but not all.
- http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=MESQUITEHOMEPARADE.COM gives you ownership information on the domain. If you are one of these people, you should be able to get godaddy to give you FTP/control panel access, allowing to to backup the web site AND database.

Do others have other ideas? Certainly also search these forums, as you are likely not the first person to have this issue!