This bit of news might better be filed under horror stories or offbeat. According to one site owner, within two days of launching and announcing an ecommerce website featuring high-end products, the hosting company *lost* it due to an employee error.

According to my host, the server company overrode the C drive for the 60+ websites, then finalized the loss by deleting the backup secondary drive.

What’s the moral of this story? Backup, backup, backup!

read more about the fiasco | see the digg story

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