What Happened?

Our Hosts, who are basically crap (we need to change them) lost all our data. I contacted them last Sunday to ask them what was going on, they said it was just a power outage and that it woud be back in two hours. So five hours later I asked them again, they said that it was fine and really in a couple of hours it would be back up.

The next day I again spoke to them they said that they were just running fsck on the drive and that it might take a while, but after that there woudl be no problems.

The next time I contacted them they said the drive was corrupt and that it was hard to say how long it would take, but not to worry that all the data was safe.

The next time I contacted them they told me all the data was lost and that I could 'upload' the site again. So I asked about the SQL and they said oh yeah that is gone too.

So we started again, obviously I have all the style sheets, but the rest was a bit hit and miss. I had the original templates, which were ok, but of course we lost all our text.

This time we keep our own backups.