My 4.7 site crashed. I searched the forum and believe the best solution is to reinstall 4.7 (upgrading to 4.7.10 in the process), import the database, then — after all is good — upgrade to 5.x, which had been in the works for a few months.
Here's probably the first of a couple places where I need a little advice. When I started the site with little Drupal knowledge, I used Fantastico. This time I'm not. While reading the 4.7 installation documentation (http://drupal.org/node/43807), I saw this, which seems slightly different than the Fantastisco install:
This will create a new directory drupal-x.x.x/ containing all Drupal files and directories. Move the contents of that directory into a directory within your web server's document root or your public HTML directory:
The Fantastico installation had merely placed all of the Drupal files in the "/Public_html" directory, not within a directory within the "/Public_html" folder. I'm reading the installation direction as to mean that I should create a directory within the "/Public_html" directory for this installation. Is that correct?