Ok, that lasted perhaps ten hours and never fully propagated. I didn’t see some errors until right at 12:00 GMT.

Well I’ve scribbled a small heap of things over the past few months and this software simply refused to yield, update after update. As a result I undertook to delete the database and everything, and re-install from scratch, meticulously checking everything from cyrillic use to my customized template for flaws that would spoil the site’s function. The site is up, again, alas. ~]3