15 September 2016
With much help from Nexcess, things are now resolved. Apparently, someone was attempting either a DDoS or a hack, neither of which was ultimately successful. Nexcess will be monitoring for unusual activity, and manta2g is adding further security layers to the code.
I'm 90% complete with data restore in the comics subdomain.
For stories where the chapters didn't quite convert right (it's a long and involved process as to why, so I'll not bore you), you'll see black diamonds with question marks in them instead of punctuation. To temporarily fix this, set the encoding in your browser to Windows-1252. This will make the punctuation display. We are manually going through and fixing all these chapters, so that the conversion to utf8 is finally completed.