BOFH: Oh No! The CMS Ate 500 Pages of Corporate Documentation
The Register, Friday, September 11th, 2026
The long-running BOFH column turns a content management system disaster into a cautionary tale about backups and blame.
The Register's long-running Bastard Operator From Hell column takes on a content management system that has swallowed 500 pages of corporate documentation.
Behind the satire sits a familiar operational reality: documentation platforms are rarely covered by the same backup and restore discipline applied to production databases, and nobody notices until content is gone.
The column also captures the organizational dynamic where the question of who is responsible arrives long before the question of how to restore. It is a comic piece, but it works as a prompt to check whether your wiki and CMS are actually in scope for recovery testing.