I deleted my WP database???

[keithmoore44]

I've got my Genesis site hosted on Godaddy (http://www.keith-moore.net), and last night I wanted to make a subdomain so I could create a new WP site and see if I liked it enough to later buy a new domain for it. I created the new subdomain, deleted some old subdomains from old school projects and...

1. My keith-moore.net domain is simply a white screen with the words, "Error establishing a database connection"
2. My subdomain (http://baldguyinla.keith-moore.net/ ) says "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server."

I call Godaddy tech support, and the rep says he doesn't see the website's database, as in I deleted it. I'm out of town as I write this, so all my file backups are on my computer at home, but I don't think I backed up my database (forgot/didn't realize it's done separately from simply importing all the WP files), so it's looking like I might be screwed.

The tech said they could track down the deleted database and restore it for $80. Not the end of the world, but do I have to spend money to fix it in this situation? I guess that depends on whether I backed the database up properly in the first place. Frustrating, but at least this is just a personal hobby site, not the center of my business.

Any thoughts? Much appreciated...

[Victor Font]

A big part of your problem is that you are using GoDaddy for a host. Switch to a reliable host like SiteGround. Creating and deleting sub-domains should not have even touched the database. Normally, the process is create a database in MySQL, create the sub-domain, install WordPress. Sub-domain creating generally just adds DNS records, it doesn't do anything with the database. That's a separate process. Check to see if your wp-config file for the main site somehow got trashed. That's a more likely scenario than deleting a database, unless GoDaddy makes it part of the sub-domain process.

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