earner wrote
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.
I can feal the pain and relief ;)
earner wrote
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!
I don't think, the basic problem is bound to DotNetNuke - you would face the same situation with any other system, you are not familiar with. In general, dynamic sites are slower than static sites, because they need to evaluate the user and check/premare to deliver specific content to him. However, 20 minutes is by far too slow, check out demo.dotnetnuke.com to get a feeling, how it should run.
earner wrote
How much would it cost to get a competent person to do an upgrade to a newer version?
it depends on the version you are running and the server access you have. Feel free to contact me for a specific offer (leupold [at] gamma-concept.de).
earner wrote
Would a newer version be better/faster?
Which version are you curently running? usually never versions have bugs fixed and new features, but there have been a number of releases, specifically targeting performance (namely DNN 4.4.0 and 4.7.0).