Restoring a Joomla website

From time to time we come across legacy applications and deployments that you didn’t know exist until something goes wrong with it. This week it was an unbeknown to me Joomla website that had been ticking over since 2012. However recent visits to the site got this result:

A report came in on this issue and a few checks of the domain DNS revealed it was on a platform we use for domains and web hosting.

Not overly familiar with the hosting company from a website standpoint and even less with Joomla, it was time to first fathom out how it works, and them find the problem and fix

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