I am trying to upgrade a 7.x DNN site, no content has been added. The 7 site worked before the upgrade.
I place the site offline with app_offline.htm
I unzipped the upgrade file with overwrite enabled.
I got no errors during the upgrade

I found some older papers on the telerik version being hard coded into the config files but I cannot find telerik DLL anywhere on the site. I am not sure if it is in a different location in 7 or 8 or if some other problem is causing this.

Can anyone give me a shove in the proper direction?

error file

Upgrading community version 7.x to latest 8.x on godaddy shared hosting

Godaddy is tough for DNN Toddah. It is the worst hosting provider to host DNN in general.

Upgrading a brand new DNN 7 site to DNN 8 is no major effort. No DLLs have changed location. MAybe when you tried upgrading not all files from the upgrade package have been uploaded.

I would try again from scratch.

Sincerely,
Andy