UK2.net - which claims to be the "UK"s biggest host" - fell over yesterday afternoon, causing disruption for thousands of its customers.
According to a statement on its message board, the company suffered an "unusually long network outage [yesterday] afternoon between, roughly, 1:45pm and 4:15pm." "This was caused by an as yet unexplained simultaneous failure of a number of critical routers in our network," it said. The result is that UK2.net"s customers lost their Web sites and email - and many aren"t happy.
The company has apologised for the "inconvenience this may have caused [its] customers" and claims this is the "first major outage in the uk2.net network...for at least a year".