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