Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice

marmoset writes "Citing the high costs of running the free service, performance concerns, and health problems, Dave Winer closed down the weblogs.com hosting service without any prior notice. As many as 3000 sites are now inacessible, and the users who want to transfer their data elsewhere have to ask (politely) for it to be exported. As might be expected, reactions range from understanding to enraged. Netcraft has a report, too."

Comments

Re:Umm...

[DNS-and-BIND]

No, I have a life, I don't live vicariously through my online existence.

Re:Not any more then normal traffic really..

[Moraelin]

To complement what Just Some Guy already said, these are bloggers. If you gave them a week warning, they'd just spend the week posting whiny crap about how this sucks. And linking to each other so they would rank high on Google.

(Obviously, no actual information page should be allowed to show in the first 10 pages of a search for that topic on Google. Some airhead's whining and web equivalent of masturbating in public for attention is, of course, _the_ only authoritative source of information anyone should ever need on the net.)

I.e., yes, it would have served little purpose except to create more useless traffic.

Plus, I doubt that any of that data was worth backing up anyway. As I've said, the whole thing is more about verbal wanking in public for attention (and not getting it anyway) than about having any useful information on that site.

Re:Wired article

[Moraelin]

Again, I'm not saying that everyone in any line of work is a clueless monkey. There are a bunch competent programmers, competent managers, competent support people, competent web designers, etc. But also a bunch of very very bad ones. And a whole bunch somewhere between the two extremes.

Basically all the point I'm trying to make is that you can't say "oh, he's a programmer, he should have known about backups, and a whole lot of other stuff about computers." In practice, he might or he might not. Being a programmer could mean anything between PhD in CS and someone who doesn't even know what a backup is. Or what that funny "forward" button in Outlook does.