For anyone's who's currently wondering about what's going on behind the scenes, I'll give you a little update. For anyone who doesn't know, I've been backing up the server for the past few days since we started playing on our new + world, and thus when I tried to do a small update to the server thought I could just restore the server with the backups I have. However, when I went to go restore it, it restored the server to our previous world - the one in which I initially stated a few days ago got wiped out. I'm currently working on using each of the 7 backups that I currently have and see if any of them can work with our current world, but I'm a little pessimistic on this outcome.
The main thing I'm worried about at the moment is trying to do future updates. As many of you can probably expect, I'm not the brightest person when it comes to coding and updating plugins to make commands, whitelists, player restrictions, etc. As such, I've been spending the last few hours troubleshooting how to apply everything and make it work efficiently and effectively. It might take a day or two to get all of this working properly and up to date - I have to leave for work in about an hour and when I get back I'll continue to work on getting the server running properly. Tomorrow I'm visiting my girlfriend so I"ll be out of commission that entire day, so I'm going to do my best to get this good to go for tonight. If not, then Thursday.
Some of you are probably pissed off and rightfully so. I personally am. I'm going to keep working on it but I'm not too sure as what the outcome is going to be. Either way, thanks for being patient with this everyone.