So, as has been accurately pointed out by my partners in crime, we had a little snafu with my 'internet playground'. The kind folks at Valueweb moved the machine physically from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami, which ended up in a hard drive failure according to their tech guys.
$100 bucks in recovery costs later, I had the drive in my office, plugged it in, and managed to recover all but about a dozen files from the disk. That eneded up saving J$ and myself countless hours of attempting to recreate our mess of LAMP configs.
I don't know if the drive really was bad at all, as it worked for me on the first try. It's also entirely possible that the tech jockeys in the datacenter had no idea what was going on with a Debian/LILO prompt on the machine, as they all come pre-installed with Fedora/GRUB, but there are plenty of clever ways around that.
In the end, we're all back and blogging, and we've come up with a significantly more robust backup plan. And were we really that missed in the 6 days and 20 hours of downtime? Probably not.
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