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Data Center Move Goes Awry for TypePad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sloooow-responses dept.

miller60 writes "Problems during a switchover between data centers have slowed TypePad, the popular blog hosting service. Typepad maxed out its data center space and all available power at Internap, and is in the process of moving to a new data center. The transition has not gone smoothly, causing the Typepad service to slow to a crawl amid very public complaints by its blogger customers. TypePad operator Six Apart promises things will improve soon."

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  1. The TypePad home page is on Akamai ... by miller60 · · Score: 4, Informative
    ... hence the link to that URL rather than direct link to individual blogs. If a midnight Slashdotting brings Akamai and its 15,000 servers to its news, I guess THAT would be news.

    Hey, if it happens, we'll have to post a link about the Akamai outage and see if it happens again.

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  2. Re:Living up to their name by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Informative

    Internap's facilities are pretty big. When we moved our stuff into their Seattle facility about three years ago, they were at 60% capacity. Now they are at 97% capacity. This facility has hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of racks each of which is capable of holding 48 1U servers. They recently gutted a conference room and a large staging area space so they could add more. I believe Internap has 25 similar facilities worldwide. They are doing brisk businesss.

  3. You get what you pay for by davidwr · · Score: 3, Informative

    The least intrusive way to move data centers is by using remote hot backups. That costs. A lot.

    The second best option is to estimate your downtime, double it, and raise it to the next unit of measurement. If you think it will take 2 days to move if everything goes according to plan, tell your customers it will take up to 4 weeks to iron out all the kinks.

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  4. Re:Well.. by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Informative
    I wasn't going to click their link.... until you said that

    Then i read the farking article and realized it didn't matter

    Typepad's home page is hosted at Akamai, a major content distribution network, and has been spared the level of performance problems seen by many TypePad bloggers. Mena Trott promised things will be better soon. /blockquote
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