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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 2816004" data-attributes="member: 21076">MySQL can support transaction logging if you use InnoDB tables.  By default though, MySQL uses MyISAM tables which do not have transaction support.  There are various design decisions that are typically made when building up a website or application on a DB.  Sometimes performance is more critical than recoverability, other times not.  Sometimes you just inherit a site and work with that you have.  Some sites can either get away with the lack of transaction support because a site is primarily read-only or the backend architecture allows you to get away with it.Frequent automated backups are important whether you use transaction based DBs or not.  I am sure the issue is being looked at now.</blockquote>