Been months since I've checked these forums. Glad I did tonight.
The server's hard drive failed, and all of the backups were lost. After a solid month of not getting any help from the tech team at the company who'd been hosting the server, Bissig decided to find a new host. The new host was slightly pricier, but he said he was willing to pay it because of the extremely good support. The new team was extremely helpful, and Bissig said that the system they used was a bit different. The last email that I got from him was on March 9th. He told me to start letting everyone know that the server would be back online within a few days, and the forums would be back online as soon as he was able to get in touch with Meow (Confess) for the IPB License. He said it would take a bit longer than usual to set this server up, as he wasn't familiar with virtualization, and their processes when it came to updating/changing files were very different from the last host, so he needed to figure everything out. After that, he stopped sending emails and stopped responding to anyone's.
My guess is he backed out..didn't want to foot the bill every month. Which I can absolutely understand. He NEVER played. He was in Germany, the majority of our players were in the US. By the time he could play, there were 2-3 people left and most of the time the 2-3 were just idle on spec. He just payed the bills every month so that all of us could play. Either that or, and hopefully this isn't it, but something could've happened to him and he isn't around any more.
Manbearpig and Aelita, I'd be very interested in talking to you about your offers if they still stand. I ran the server, along with Mario, and I'm the SST Clan Leader. If the price is right and I can get in touch with Confess, Rezyn, and Mario to get things set up, I'd be more than happy to get SST back up and running. I'll PM both of you with my contact info, and hopefully Rezyn/Confess/Mario will see this thread.