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Blog Services Outgrow Their Data Centers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-fun-to-write-things dept.

miller60 writes "The growth of the blogosphere is straining the infrastructure at popular service providers. TypePad is having serious problems again today, the latest in a series of outages and malfunctions as it switches to a larger facility. Bloglines is also apologizing for performance problems, and says it too will move to a larger data center to accommodate growth. There's been no sign of a mass migration from either service. Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept rocky performance from popular services?"

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  1. Problems accessing... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn! I can't access my blog! I have to blog about this... uh... damn.

    1. Re:Problems accessing... by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
      > Damn! I can't access my blog! I have to blog about this... uh... damn.

      4:16PM up 4 days, 6:24, 2740 users, load averages: 8.44, 7.42, 3.38

      Mood: Slashdotted.

  2. Rocky Performance, here I come! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept rocky performance from popular services?"

    Yes.

    Please reference: the Microsoft product line

  3. Oh no teh 870905p43r3 i5 b0rk3d! by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, world continues to turn, sky still up there. Film at 11.

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  4. As longtime readers of Slashdot know... by shawnmchorse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our willingness to accept rocky performance from popular services is the only reason we're still reading Slashdot today...:-)

  5. Cruel by gibbo2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bloglines is apologising for performance problems, and you're going to Slashdot them on top of that? Guess that shows what people think of bloggers around here :)

  6. Re:Hmm... by xXxDragonTearsQTxXx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bite me.

  7. Re:submitter, you suck by multipartmixed · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, I've noticed that hard drives fail quite often, and take a lot of data with them.

    Somebody really should invent some method of making a single disk failure a non-issue; perhaps, by using a redundant array of independant drives...

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