The Vinculum is up and running again. Like I said below, it has been reverted to the way it was on July 4th. I'm sorry to everyone for not verifying the backups. This is another mistake I'll learn from. I hope the forum can get back to normal soon.

As everyone noticed, the site has been acting up for the last couple weeks. Here's the story behind everything. The company that hosts my site is offering an upgrade for my virtual server. In order to perform the upgrade, the server had to be erased then reset. Naturally, this deleted everything. This should've been easy. All I had to do was make a backup, upgrade the server, and restore the backup. Unfortunately, things never go as planned. The main parts of the site were backed up fine, but the database wasn't. Not only did I use the server's built-in backup program, I also used the database administration program to backup the databases. Being the lucky person I am, neither program worked correctly. The latest working Vinculum backup I have is from July 4th. All the other backups were incomplete. The really annoying part is that the database tables containing the forum posts are all there. The tables containing user information, search information, and a couple other things weren't saved. If I restored the newer posts with the older user information, I'll end up getting weird errors. So unless anyone can give advice to merge the information from two different backups, we're stuck with losing all the posts since July 4th, 2007. I'm trying to get the Vinculum working as soon as possible. It'll probably be a couple more days.