Labour Not Backed-Up
Labour's website is down:
www.labour.org.uk
Welcome to the Labour Party website. The normal site is temporarily unavailable following an explosion at Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 11 December.
Part of the offices of our hosting company were extensively damaged, resulting in the loss of our site.
These guys run the country the same way they run their website. Err, guys you did remember to back it up? You wouldn't be that stupid would you?
UPDATE:
UPDATE:
The Guardian's Oliver King credits this blog as the origin of the story, a refreshing change in behaviour from that quarter. Wonder what brought it on?
6 comments:
The site back-up is kept with Saddam's WMD.
Are you Simon Cowell? Or is someone on popbitch ripping you off?
Them Popbitch frequently nick stuff off here.
I am not Simon Cowel and IDNSHC
AICM my £5
A quick google news search finds this nugget.
“The fierce explosion - the largest in peacetime Britain - damaged a nearby a data center operated by Northgate Information Services as well as the offices of Kodak and Dixons Store Group.
A statement from Northgate indicated that backup equipment was unusable. "The fabric of the building and the fixtures and equipment inside have been badly damaged", Northgate said. "The back-up systems that were in place have also been rendered inoperable”.
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=2091
Back-up systems on the same site. That is pathetic!
Note the use of the word "rendered". Was the CIA involved?
Any IT bod worth his salt will tell you that you keep secondary backups off-site, to a distance of 30+ miles where possible.
The company I work for has two disaster recovery centres in different parts of the country. Even the software company I used to work at which had about 10 employees kept backups off-site. They couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery that lot.
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