The Minecraft servers went down again for a bit because the backup drive was the main failure that wasn’t resolved last time. Once this was discovered another drive was ordered and just installed to resume backups. All data appears to be recovered from faulty drive and it will be tossed.
Also 1.12 seems to be not friendly with very old plugins which we use. I will see what ones can be kept but it looks like we may finally have to drop some plugins. All the backbone ones will most likely get updated, but ones like karmic share and death chest may finally be removed.
We will see when the final 1.12 spigot release happens and make the decision then.