Is Six Apart growing too fast? Have they got their eye on the hole instead of the doughnut now that they’re joining Yahoo! in a web hosting partnership?
ZDNet reports that thousands of blogs using Six Apart’s Typepad software have lost access to their last week’s posts and can’t publish to their blogs. I’m sure bloggers like Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion are in the throes of terrible withdrawals from being offline all day.
Some of the blogs are online, and so are their RSS feeds, but they show week-old posts. The majority get a 404 error.
Six Apart’s site assures customers that their blog data is safe and that “We have no reason to believe that any of your posts, comments, TrackBacks, photos or files have been lost.”
Nontheless, I’m sure bloggers will feel a whole lot better when they get their work back.
Thousands of Typepad-Based Blogs Are Down
BL Ochman | December 16, 2005 | Permanent Link | Comments (3) | TrackBack (
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I don’t know what the big deal was. Once I saw how to restore my blog it took all of five minutes.
Maybe bloggers need to read before they write sometimes as the communications with SixApart was very good and easy for me. A phone call, an email and within minutes I knew what was up, how long it was expected to take.
Once the blogosphere noise quieted down, I pressed the republish button and my blog was back up without one iota of data lost.
I’m in this same boat… It should be noted that although this last outage was a HUGE one, Typepad has been plagued with a ton of performance issues for months now.
It seems like they’re having trouble getting their act together. Who knows if it has anything to do with growth or not…
I moved to a WordPress installation on my own hosting account. Yeah, it’s nerdy and I have to learn a lot, but I am the master of my domain and my hosting company is amazing.