Sometime early morning CET this Sunday May 12th, the server ran into a major issue. Since this is a shared hosting I am not privy of exactly what happened but CPanel reported problems with insufficient disk space. This caused the database to fail and become unresponsive.

Since this happened on a Sunday morning CET, it took some time for admins to fix the server. I couldn't do anything on my end but wait. Despite support telling me it would be up in 3 hours, I checked again Sunday around 9pm CET and the issues were still there. I hoped the server would be fixed by monday morning and thankfully I was able to restore the database this morning.

On the good news side, I have now merged remaining php8 fixes (issue 335). We can now officially say the site is fully php8 compatible, hooray!