Alas, the web server went down hard when the SSD failed. It seems that there are a finite number of rewrites on an SSD and I had reached that threshold over the extent of the disk ...
Likely due to firewall reconfigurations.
Anyway, after collecting my stuff and provisioning for linux access on windoze 10 so I could retrieve a few items after the fact we're back up on a new drive new installs and newly restored scripting and data.
The frustration level never rose above ... oh 6.5 or so I guess.
Anyway, it was a good tough exercise in DR and I passed.