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Server theft knocks Peter Gabriel off the web

By Drew Cullen
Published Monday 5th May 2008 16:35 GMT

Peter Gabriel's online music empire is reduced to a holding page, following the theft of servers from his web host over the weekend.

According to the web monitoring firm Netcraft, Gabriel's servers are hosted (http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?position=limited&host=petergabriel.com) by Rednet Ltd, although that appears to be a defunct brand of a UK company called Opal Telecom (http://www.red.net/about-us/), which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carphone Warehouse.

But details are sketchy and as it's a public holiday in the UK, we'll fill in the gaps tomorrow.

In the meantime here is the message posted at time of writing on the web-savvy musician's site, PeterGabriel.com (http://www.petergabriel.com).

Tex on petergabriel.com: " We'll be back soon - apologies for the lack of service."

Real World, Peter Gabriel and WOMAD web services are currently off-line. Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night - Monday morning. We are working on restoring normal service as soon as possible.

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