Check your DB if the tables exist.
If your blog was working fine and suddenly this is showing up, then it sounds like your webhost is having problems.
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Thanks for the reply XeroCool. I have just checked my DB. Surprisingly nothing exists there. But I can assure you that the blog was up and running not more than 12 hours ago. Any suggestions?
Thanks Manzabar. Yeah looks like I have a problem with the webhost. I will have a word or two with them.
Change your passwords more frequently.
I can’t say that your problem was caused by your hosting account or database being hacked, but it’s always a good idea to keep passwords fresh anyway.
I’m with Manzabar. Over the years I have learned several things about web hosts and one of them is this:
1. The crappy ones don’t backup your site at all.
2. The better ones actually do backup your site, but not all that often. Plus, they will restore a backup at will without telling you. All of a sudden your site is 3 days behind where it was a moment ago. Still better than host type #1.
3. The best ones backup your site daily and incrementally. Then, if they have to restore it, they restore only the increments required. Thus, the fact that a restore has been done is (most of the time) invisible to you. The best of a bad set of option.
So, I think you have a #2 type of host who is in the habit of restoring several day old backups when something goes wrong. I would recommend checking your hosts website for something like a ‘network status’ page. You may be able to read what has happened over the last few days and see that indeed a server went down and a backup was restored.
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Thanks Heatsink. I have been keeping in touch with my webhost. They do claim a daily back-up. Once the issue resolves, I will reply in detail which might benefit anyone in the future.
Do we need to take a regular back-up of wordpress ourselves?
backups are your friend.
I make sure, after I make any changes to any of my websites, I save it to my hard drive at home.
my hard drive has a set of folders/directories setup exactly the same way my sites are. Easier to find things that way.
I know most folks do backups, but I like to mention it form time to time.
My my webhost does backup domains, but its always good to have my own backup.
