Apparently it appears to me the server was restored from a backup that was made about a week ago so the forum state is what it was at that time. Fortunately for me very little posting was made on the forum last week due to the long periods of unusablity during that time from error messages and extreme slowdown. The performance has been good in the past 24 hours since the server came back online, and if it stays good performance now its an OK tradeoff.

The only remaining issue that others still have as well is the server's time of day is about 15min fast and keeps getting further off gradually. So if server clock could be adjusted periodically even automatically with syncing to an internet timeserver that would be great.
Thanks to the support staff for the quick server work yesterday!