Ross County's website accidentally deleted

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Ross County's website accidentally deleted

by Forbury Lion » 19 Apr 2016 11:32

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-h ... s-36080667

The website of Scottish League Cup winners Ross County has been accidentally deleted, causing problems for the club selling tickets.
The Dingwall-based Scottish Premiership outfit uses web hosting firm 123-reg.
The company, which hosts 1.7m sites in the UK, has said an error made during maintenance "effectively deleted" what was on some of its servers.
David O'Connor, of Ross County, said the issue came amid the club's build up to Sunday's game against Celtic.
He said: "Online is a crucial part of our ticket sales, selling merchandise and the website is where fans go to to reserve seats on buses and find match information."
Mr O'Connor said the website went down on Saturday and efforts were being made to restore services.
He said supporters could contact the club by phone - 01349 860860 - or visit the stadium to buy tickets.
But he added: "Coming to the ground is not easy for the fan who works nine to five. Our fan base is always widely spread out across the Highlands and it means supporters having to travel quite a distance to get to Dingwall."
Earlier this week, 123-reg started a "recovery process", but advised customers with their own data backup to rebuild their own websites.


Lesson for Reading FC there, Do backups!

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Re: Ross County's website accidentally deleted

by Sanguine » 19 Apr 2016 12:00

Reminded me of this (non-football) story from a few days ago.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 84256.html

Man accidentally deletes his entire business. Seems he entered a delete code to his servers without specifying its destination, simultaneously wiping all 1,535 websites he serviced, plus all his backups.

:shock: :oops: :lol:

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Re: Ross County's website accidentally deleted

by genome » 19 Apr 2016 12:29

Sanguine Reminded me of this (non-football) story from a few days ago.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 84256.html

Man accidentally deletes his entire business. Seems he entered a delete code to his servers without specifying its destination, simultaneously wiping all 1,535 websites he serviced, plus all his backups.

:shock: :oops: :lol:


That was a hoax (apparently), trying to market his company. Although why you would want to promote your company by claiming you've done a shit job, is beyond me.

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