[pgrenn]

Same thing happened to me. My personal rails website, which I kept personal blog postings in a postgres database got completely lost. Most of those post date back to 2014.

I made some mistakes like not backing up my db, not keeping up on maintenance. But didn't think it would result in a complete loss of database considering I was still paying heroku. This app had been running since 2014. After this incident I removed my website from heroku.

[simonw]

In case this is useful, I recovered some lost content from my blog using the Internet Archive a few years ago and published notes about how I did it here: https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/8/missing-content/

[pgrenn]

Interesting, good to know. I do have a internet archive of my website as well.