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Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-such-small-portions dept.

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."

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  1. Disaster! by xsupergr0verx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If all those 15 year old girls have a tragedy happen to them like this, where are they going to put it? No blog!

    If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
    Trippy

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  2. Re:I feel a disturbance in the force. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why, did kuro5hin.org close? :->

  3. Re:I feel a disturbance in the force. by oliverthered · · Score: 0, Redundant

    what there shutting dowm slashdot too..

    looks like I'll be doing a bit more work then.

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  4. The bastards should at least refund them. by yuri+benjamin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bastards! I'd want my money back! - oh wait - it was a free service.

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