# Discourse data saved?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-saved/243512>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 1, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-saved/243512 "2022-11-01T04:57:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frully](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/frully/32/235059_2.png) [@Frully](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frully)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-saved/243512/4 "2022-11-01T06:10:54Z")

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Whether your data/database still exists is down to the retention policy of digitalocean or hostgator, whichever one was running the actual discourse docker container. (I presume digitalocean; hostgator looks more like the blog/website running wordpress).

If you miss a payment they typically just turn your machine off and you get a few months to catch up. If it’s past that retention period they have the right to nuke it, and if you don’t have a downloaded backup, you’re sol.

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