>>268308253 days downtime is really nothing much. Most of the problems we've had this entire month is because of the nigger host, including the dynmap. People who have logged in during the small windows that the server was up this week had already had plugins that were working as well as they did last update. All of this would have happened even without updating. In fact, a lot of players are glad the update is happening because we're getting rid of all the amplified terrain that no one builds on.
Keep up to date with what's happening before complaining.