Somewhere around 5 years ago I was doing some maintenance on my site&#x27;s database without really knowing what I was doing.<p>My wedding website was hosted on the same server, so I thought I might as well delete it since the wedding was months before. Dropped that database. Visited my business website a few minutes later and it wasn&#x27;t working. Apparently both sites were in the same database...<p>Called MediaTemple support and asked if they had a backup. They did! Support guy asked if I wanted him to restore it. Of course I do. He goes on hold.<p>He comes back on and says, &quot;Sir, I&#x27;m sorry to say that the last back up actually backed up the blank version of the site so we don&#x27;t have anything to restore. Is there anything else I can help you with?&quot;...<p>After hanging up, I explained the situation to my wife and she just says, call back and ask someone else. The next support guy tells me that there actually is a way to restore an old archived backup, but there will likely be a loss of data and there will be a fee. Turns out the fee was only $15 and the backup was from the previous day, so no loss of data.<p>I&#x27;m still running the same site and I might soon be able to hire my first employee :)<p>My takeaways were to create backups, not monkey around on the database, and to call support back and ask for someone else to verify what the other person told me.