Aye I get that, but to happen multiple times after these scenarios is a little suspect.I was a victim several times in recent years of the database loss or its corruption due to host PC failings of one sort of another. Every server owner should offload server backed up database at regular intervals (at least once a day) to a different physical place. Not sure you can rely on a DEDI 'plan' which supposedly keeps the hosting machine backed up. Likely small servers are hosted in some questionable places.
I didn't look into it but I think even some free FTP or backup programs out there are able to automatically synchronize remote-local directories or even remote-remote ones (to sites like mega or mediafire etc). Maybe some free FPT program could be made part of the crystal package like the autopatch is, only in this case it would 'autopatch' the database off server site.
I don't play this server but he is not the first or last to suffer database corruption or loss. I never came back after such loss on servers I played unless it was a day or two rewind only (depends how much time I put in and what progress I made in game).
I have only ever corrupted a DB when I decided to improperly code something, with regards to offsite back ups, 100% agreed on that as you can never rely on the host to hold backups alone