I talked to Xordan just a seconed ago over email, he said he was almost possitive something failed, but depending on what it is, it could be tommorow, could be next week, no one knows.
Now that's bad service from the server hoster. Hardware problems should be fixed within the hour normally, within six hours on weekends or when there are not enough hands available for other reasons, and within two days if it's difficult to find out what exactly failed and they don't want to replace the hardware.
Well, the current state is that laanx.fragnetics.com does not respond to pings, so either the server or the switches and routers that connect it to the Internet have some hardware failure. This has been the case for more than two days, so Fragnetics is either not half as competent as they say, or PlaneShift is very, very low priority for them.
Either way, I'd start looking for another sponsor. I can recommend several hosters with excellent service in Germany and an willing to contact them if that's desired; I'm pretty sure there are other in the world.
The alternative may be that the hard disk failed and the PS guys are struggling to get the data back because the last backup is weeks old. (I don't say it is so, it's just the only other possibility that I can imagine. In that case, I'm pretty sure the PS team will make sure they have a daily backup and a quick set-up plan for future hardware outages.)
It costs something like 80 us dollars to buy a single copy of Spinrite, a tool I have used for years to fix hard drive issues.
You need physical access to the machine to insert the boot medium and run Spinrite.
I don't think a trip to Singapore is a realistic option for a low-budget project like Planeshift :-)
Depending on what exactly went wrong, Spinrite may or may not be of help. If the problem is a bad block, Spinrite is just the right tool for the right job; however, given the suddenness of the outage, I suspect it's a faulty motherboard component, or a drive that refuses to spin up. In both cases, Spinrite is useless.
In the wake of hardware corruption, PS could have a corrupted file system. You'll need yet another set of tools to fix that.
(It *would* be helpful if the PS team said a bit more about the exact nature of the problem, some people here obviously have practical experience with various types of failure and can offer advice.)
