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Blog Services Outgrow Their Data Centers
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?"
Damn! I can't access my blog! I have to blog about this... uh... damn.
Absolutely not. They will all stop blogging en masse and the blogosphere will cease to exist. What a brilliant question.
Random is the New Order.
Yes.
Please reference: the Microsoft product line
Yea, there is Google Blogspot ... but even the big "G" has had
performance issues in the past. An option for /. readers is to
host a blog on your own site ... but that's not realistic
for the average Joe. This stuff is all free, so I think most
people are willing to grin and bear and suffer through some outages.
Plus I don't think the world is going to end if we are unable
to blog for a short while ... ;-)
P.S. Per my /. username, I did get a chuckle out of this quote from Bloglines - "Bloglines has been busting at the seams like the Incredible Hulk"
and yea, getting angry and transforming into a
Big Green Monster can really
wreck your clothing budget.
Your summary implies that the latest Typepad outage has something to do with their datacenter move of October. It does not. They had a hard drive problem that they noticed during routine maintenance.
Viper is the preferred editor of the Emacs operating system.
In other news, world continues to turn, sky still up there. Film at 11.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Our willingness to accept rocky performance from popular services is the only reason we're still reading Slashdot today...:-)
It's the advertisers who should be angry. They're the ones paying for these services. They rely on the readers to view the web pages and buy their products.
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...
Seriously just spend the 3-5 bucks a month and get some basic hosting. Its worth the cost cause you don't even have to know how to build a site. You can just install the solutions given to you by the host or one you download. I think more people should consider this because I'm less interested in blogs from websites like blogger.com because it requires just blabbing once a day and nothing else so I tend to think the quality is slightly lower. This may just be in my head but I think this is a really good reason for people consider homebrew blogs.
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 :)
Bite me.