Ok, I got the forum back up and running. it had some sort of critical error which I couldn't figure out. I ended up backing up the files to March 4, 2019. one day prior to the event. looking around it appears everything is here. this seems to always happen on the weekends when help is slow dealing with the server. they didn't respond until this afternoon while I was away from the computer.
I'll look in the files here now and see if any errors show up so I know what to look for in the future...
Shutter