Hi

I installed DNN in late 2006 - and haven't touched it since.  I know it needs upgrading but I wouldn't want to ever tackle it!

I just went to my site and it's down.  Horrible error message saying:

DotNetNuke Upgrade Error

The Assembly Version ( [ASSEMBLYVERSION] ) does not match the Database Version ( [DATABASEVERSION] )

ERROR: Could not connect to database.

Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
 

Any clues what that could be?  I can connect to my host by FTP and I can see from AWStats that visitors stopped arriving about 3-4 hours ago.

Thanks

I would like to announce that I sent an email off to tech support immediately, then posted here ... and within 5 minutes my site was up again ... so it must have been "them" and I am soooo grateful it magically started working again.

It's been a nightmare really, using DNN.  I don't know what all the back end does. I don't have any skills at all... I can't ugprade it - and right from the start it's been so slow to update (say 20 minutes to create a new module where I want it) that in a way I wish I'd never started with it.  But all my backlinks from Google etc all point to it, so I'm stuck with it!

How much would it cost to get a competent person to do an upgrade to a newer version? 

Would a newer version be better/faster?

Hi Earner,

Glad to hear you were able to get your site up and running again.

I would expect that a site that hasn't had its logs cleared in three years would exhibit some significant performance problems.  You might consider that as a quick band-aid for your performance issues (but backup your database first!).

I would also expect that a competent person would be able to upgrade your site in a few hours, with a deviation depending on your exact configuration (and current version).  Given an hourly rate of, say, $60 - $120 an hour, you can do the math.  A skilled party could probably also analyze and significantly improve your performance (again, depending on your particular configuration and hosting-related bottlenecks).  The framework is capable of performing extremely well.

Hope this helps!

Brandon