By John Glenday

A UK web hosting service blunder has seen 1.7m websites deleted since the weekend after it botched a server maintenance exercise.

123-reg left users of its virtual private server in the dark after an automated script run on its servers accidentally deleting user files in a ‘catastrophic error’, with as yet no indication as to whether they can be restored.

In a statement given to the BBC, the company said it had instigated a ‘recovery process’ after conceding that the difficulties had resulted ‘in some data loss for some customers’.

In direct communications with those affected, 123-Reg said that it was beginning the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum