I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else but this morning  my blog Tips and Tricks HQ somehow disappeared from the face of this earth! The day started as usual... I woke up in the morning went to my office and started checking my emails and found out that I received an email from SiteUptime (SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable) telling me that my site is down. So naturally I wanted to check if the site is up now. When I entered the site address in the address bar I got the following screen! [caption id="attachment_959" align="alignnone" width="444" caption="WordPress Blog Setup Screen"][/caption] You can probably imagine that at this point I was pretty scared! I always backup my database and WordPress files regularly so I wasn't completely in the water but what about all the articles that I have posted after the last backup? Not to mention the traffic that I am loosing now! Anyway, in my case the damage wasn't that severe. One of my WordPress database tables 'wp_options' was marked as crashed and I was getting the following error that I recovered from ...