Well, I tried to replace a hard drive, and after I did, the apache server decided to die and not start anymore. Very luckily I had 1 backup from Dec 23rd that I mashed together with the broken server files and got the forum back up.
Scared the bajuuzus out of me.
Note, the harddrive I put in is not a new one, but a spare I had on the shelf, SMART status claims that it's ok, but it's clocked over 40K hrs on it already.
Running the server off an old flash based medium that's not a SSD is really bad, like, really slow, and pron to die...
Sorry for it took 10hrs or so, I'm not really that tech inclined.