The server on which our UBB is located crashed last night for about three hours. This morning about 7 or 8 topics had disappered. Is it possible that the two events are related, and if so how does that happen?

What I would like to determine is whether there is something inherient in the UBB which would cause the topics to be deleted under these circumstances, or whether there is something the Web Host technician did that caused the problem. If the later could you please point me to instructions that would prevent this from happening again in the future.

Thanks in advance!