> GitLab infamously lost their entire production database

What?? The link you posted says

> Database data such as projects, issues, snippets, etc. created between January 31st 17:20 UTC and 23:30 UTC has been lost. Git repositories and Wikis were not removed as they are stored separately.

> It's hard to estimate how much data has been lost exactly, but we estimate we have lost at least 5000 projects, 5000 comments, and roughly 700 users. This only affected users of GitLab.com, self-hosted instances or GitHost instances were not affected.

How is that "their entire production database"? You make it sound so much worse than it was. While it was a horrible incident, they did not lose their whole production database.