Silly JaguarPC.
(they're actually a lot less trouble than they use to be)
Thanks RC for emailing me!
thank you littleman!
Thanks!
They changed server config without tellling you?
Thanks, littleman!
They just gave out the generic "server maintenance" email. For some reason they blanked out my settings even though everything else was left alone. I have no idea why they would do that, other than to just quickly shut everything down in the most lazy way possible.
Thinking about it, this is probably what happened.
1: they turned off read+write access Settings.php file to shut it down
2: they backed up the directory
3: they copied the directory back, but without changing the permissions on that file first -- this zeroed out the file.
Phew, glad you got it back up. Thanks LM!