So after almost 24 hours of fighting, I figured out why the site refused to load after I got the restore going.
Because of so many resets and reinstallations and god knows what else, I hit the rate limit, so I’ve temporarily commented out the ssl templates and will get them going again in a week.
The site is “functioning” while I rebake all posts to fix the broken images but I really appreciate Jay and Richard for helping me out today, you got me through the parts I really just couldn’t figure out.
Now to get a real backup downloaded so I can get S3 setup this week without worrying about this again. 