Getting 404 error despite making only text changes (nothing technical)

Hello Russell5607.
Thank you for your response.  I did get it resolved (as you noted) by doing the suggested steps provided.  However, whenever I do any update to my website (no matter how small) , it loses connection with the website and I have to do this step.  While I am glad to have a solution, I need to reach out to HS to provide a longer term solution as there should be away to avoid this altogether as it must be a known issue since they have created a solution.

We have no transactional data on our website so there isn't a security risk for it being only http (i.e. we ask for no visitor data). However, I have noticed that SEO is increasingly using https as a way to decide if a website is legit or not. 
Is there any cost to my doing as you suggested and using Cloudflare? You noted it was free for the Https element but I kinda expect there to be some charge somewhere...you know the saying "there is no such thing as a free lunch". 
Anyhow, thank you for your suggestion and I will look into it.

Hmm. Those steps are for a 404 error issue for WebsiteBuilder sites, so it shouldn't have had an affect on your website. I do believe this is just the preview site that our builder displays when a website is published, which may not be working properly since your domain is pointing to Homestead from a 3rd party registrar. Next time you publish, please disregard that page and go to your website URL directly. Let me know if it isn't working after you publish. 

@elyzabethv​
TLDR: I get the 404 error when going directly to my web-pate.

Hi.  When I publish, I am disregarding the page and going to my website URL directly which then gives me the 404 error.  The first time it happened I called into the Helpline and they said I had "too many subdomains". This didn't make sense to me as I didn't feel I had done anything that would impact my subdomain but they fixed it on their end and all was well and I moved on.  The next time I made a change to my website, exact same thing happened but this time I searched within the community rather than call the tech line and came across the solution I mentioned above.

Thoughts/suggestions welcomed. Thanks.

That's odd. From what I can see, you don't have any subdomains. 

I just tested publishing and your website is still active for me. When you publish, please make sure that the option to view page after publishing is unchecked. 

I want to delete my pages created with the old sitebuilder and build a new one. I still want to have the same name...(my name) I decided to delete the old pages but it wouldn't allow me because its attached to a domain. How do I do this?