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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."

2 of 617 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Umm... by TeamLive · · Score: 1, Troll

    How dare you do this to the community. I am going to put this on the front page of slashdot.org and gnaa.org. Lets see if you can pay your hosting costs then.
    CmdrTaco 6/15/04; 11:32:29 PM

    heh.. nice one, CmdrTaco. ok everyone, go browse every page on this dick's domain until he chokes on the hosting bill.

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  2. Re:Come on by BenjyD · · Score: 1, Troll

    The death toll from the Troubles in N. Ireland is currently around 4,000. Large parts of Manchester city centre were flattened after the IRA set off a 3000lb bomb there. Yet nobody feels they have to tiptoe around the subject and not use it as a metaphor because someone might be offended.
    Stop being such a typical self-righteous American.