Well — it was my fault that everything stopped working!
We are now looking for a new domain host. It took them more than 24 hours (after I had managed to log in from outside our home and delete the webcam-related pages on my website) to respond to requests for information…
But it was my fiddling with the webcam settings that sent a surge of data to the servers that host our domain… whereupon it automatically blocked anything from our address from getting in the door. So I couldn’t fix the problem! And no notice was sent to the administrator (Tom) that this was going on. And when he tried to call there was no answer and the voicemail was full!
So. As it stands now:
I CAN get the webcam to work. (hooray)
I don’t know what I am doing, so must go a lot slower about tweaking things. (obviously)
We will find a new domain host for our many domains, most of them mine, and it looks like we can find one that is cheaper with even more features! (happier pocketbook)
Will begin to post pics from the webcam periodically via one method or another within the next week. Then folks can see my workspace (shudder) which gives me incentive to make progress (not sure if that’s a happy or a concern).