Blog Services Outgrow Their Data Centers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday December 16, 2005 @11:54AM 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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Yes they will by kramthegram · 2005-12-16 12:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

Because you're looking at it all wrong, it's not just a service, it's a community. For the Same reasons people won't just let New Orleans go they won't leave these communities at the first sign of trouble. Sociology is a science that needs to be applied to the web more and more...