Site down, need help and opinions...

[e9coupe]

My host said to use PHP Selector in my cpanel and use an older version of PHP. I can select different ones and check it but thought I'd ask here first...

5.5
5.4
5.3
5.2
.......

[twistsol]

For vBulletin 3.8.x, PHP 5.3 will work

[e9coupe]

Okay, a couple things needed fixing. The PHP version was changed to 5.3 and somehow the database password got changed so it didn't match the config.php file. That got things working, but not on Chrome. Firefox and Explorer handle it but not Chrome.

This site can?t be reached
The webpage at http://e9coupe.com/forum/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

[Dr.CustUmz]

works in chrome for me, you may need to clear cache

--------------- Added [DATE]1462921815[/DATE] at [TIME]1462921815[/TIME] ---------------

scratch that, homepage works, every other page doesnt

[twistsol]

Clearing the cache in AdminCP -> Maintenance was going to be my suggestion as well. I can see the home page in safari, but nothing else. The error I'm getting refers to Safari's inability to decode compressed images.

Firefox is working

[e9coupe]

My friend suggested I check with the webhost....

"Check with your webhost. I bet they’ve got apache gzip compression turned on or something like that"

[Mattwhf]

Originally Posted by e9coupe

My site is down today with a database error. I believe I'm running 3.8.x. Its a really old version. I also believe that my web host updated PHP recently and could be the cause of the problem.

My questions...

What version should I update to and how do I go about finding someone trustworthy/reliable to do it for me? Its been quite a while since I hired help.

Dan

Hey Dan,
What is your hosting plan are you using? shared or a VPS?
I suppose you got a high load on your hosting, if that repeated more times, you should update for your hosting a better package.