Warning: I am confronting a technical problem with the site, which may be down for hours or even days. It was caused by Bluehost after I received this message on May 1:
Hi DOUGLAS,
The Bluehost team is dedicated to providing you with the best resources for you and your website. So, we’re excited to announce that we will be upgrading all of our servers to newer versions of Apache and providing newer versions PHP (including PHP 7.1 & 7.2). The upgraded versions provide better data processing, which can improve the performance and speed of your website.
When will maintenance begin? We will start the maintenance process on May 1 at 6 PM EST and will continually monitor your website. We anticipate less than 5 minutes of slowness/downtime during the upgrade itself.
We recommend updating all of your web installations to the latest version–including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other Content Management Tool that you may use–as soon as possible. For custom or unique PHP code, please see the PHP Migration Guide by PHP.net.
Questions? If you have any questions, please visit the Bluehost help center.
Sincerely,
The Bluehost Team
Apache is server software that dishes Web pages out across the Internet. After Bluehost updated Apache this Web site went offline. I contacted Bluehost twice about the problem. The only solution they had was to downdate the thing that turns WordPress into Web pages for Apache to send, called the PHP interpreter. It is a very old version that has, in turn, created another problem:
An updated version of WordPress is available.
You cannot update because WordPress 5.2 requires PHP version 5.6.20 or higher. You are running version 5.2.17.
I will soon be starting the struggle of dealing with this problem. I will undoubtedly need a combination of patience and impatience with Bluehost to get it fixed. So don’t be surprised if this site isn’t here the next time you look for it.