Posted in About this site, News on Saturday April 1, 2017|
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News has just arrived in the post this morning of a totally unexpected side effect of Brexit that is threatening the continued existance of the Parwich Blog and thousands of other similar small sites across the country. The team are so shocked that we thought we should share this news with you immediately.
WordPress, the company which provides the web building and publishing tools and hosts the website are informing all their clients that they may have to shut down all UK based operations. This seems to be something to do with their servers being located at the TBS site in Frankfurt. Under EU law all data held on servers within the EU must be subject to legal control by the European Court of Justice. As the UK intends to leave the ECJ this will create a conflict and likely that UK sites can no longer be hosted.
Under the Terms and Conditions of WordPress’ service all data held by them becomes theirs so we would not be able to move to another service or reconstitute the site elsewhere without infringing WordPress copyrights. So it looks like we will have no option but to close down the blog.
To read the full text of the WordPress letter we have scanned a copy here (more…)
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