After launching another WordPress powered site on the Godaddy hosting account I have, I ran into some major problems. Godaddy has a MySQL dashboard that can automatically delete a database with little or actually no manual intervention.  So upon install of WordPress on a separate domain, the database for this domain was deleated.

But, you would think there is a back up, right?  Yeah, me too. I had actually set their hosting dashboard to automatically back up the Database but it seems as if Godaddy’s MySQL automated back up system in their dashboard does not work either.  When I called Godaddy up this Sunday to point out the issue and ask if they have anyway to recover the data they say “Yes! they can recover the data” – but they want $150.00.  Even after I showed them this was all caused by their system and they agreed – they still said I would have to pay.  So as opposed to paying the $150.00 fee to have them retrieve the data I will just rebuild the site. Lucky for me I could go to Google’s cache of the site and pull most of the front end code and content I needed.

Lesson learned – back up manually, Or at least set up my own back up and test it several times. Also, I might suggest to others don’t rely on Godaddy, I for one should know better then to use a discount domain company to provide working software and services for hosting. Let’s all learn from my mistake.