confusion over server caused complete loss?

I was playing and was disconnected to my server. When I reconnected, the status on the server said "Old". I was, though, able to connect.

But then I start at my spawn point, I have no XP and all of my tools and such are gone.

My server is running on opencalaccess.org. I am the only one whitelisted for it at the moment.

Is there any way to recover?

Ok, this is weird. I went to my server to get the logs I had seen. The server is gone.

$ cd Projects/minecraft_server
$ find * -ls
2329893 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 ray admin 4096 Dec 24 12:51 world
2330114 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 ray admin 4096 Dec 24 12:51 world/advancements
2330113 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 ray admin 4096 Dec 24 12:51 world/stats

There used to be a log directory here, The used to be a copy fo the server executable. It is all gone. And I do not think I have backups of this directory.

What the heck? Your client caused my server to delete itself? How is that? That does not make sense, but I cannot think of another explanation. Any suggestions?