Typepad Outage Hits 13 Hours

The popular hosted blogging service Typepad has been largely unavailable for 13 hours now. There’s a fair amount of foaming at the mouth (see here, here and here) occuring within the blogosphere—bloggers don’t like to be without their personal diary or business communication tool for extended periods. Many say that this failure is one in a string of service issues with the service.

The latest Everything Typepad blog post about the situation indicates that a primary disk system failed during maintenance last night, and that they are restoring backup copies from two days ago. Even for blogs that are back up, comments are as yet unavailable. This means lost blog time, lost blog posts, and lost interaction with readers. I have a fair amount of sympathy for Typepad; working in the technical world means suffering through these kinds of unpredictable and unrecoverable hardware failures, but then again, I’m not running a Typepad blog I depend on being available on a daily basis.

In “Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies,” I spend quite a bit of time walking through the pros and cons of using a hosted blogging service—one that runs on a blogging company’s Web servers—as opposed to installing a blog software package on your own server. Chalk this one into the con side for hosted blogs.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 12/16 at 11:50 AM • Blogs -- Blogging News -- Blogging Tools

Comments

  1. I have to say that I am sooooo happy with Expression Engine. I can’t believe how long I lived with Blogger’s hiccups and outages (four years). Even though my blog was hosted on my own server, I was at the mercy of Blogger’s whims for candy blog and it was even worse with my blogspot blog.

    The internets have been very quiet without typepad blogs ... it’s rather eerily quiet out there.

    Posted by cybele on 12/16/05 at 05:52 PM

  2. I was looking at wordpress when typepad did their huge cockup just made the move easier in my mind now.

    Posted by gavan on 01/04/06 at 08:50 AM

  3. wordpress rocks, never used typepad

    Posted by chips on 05/03/06 at 06:04 PM

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