Typepad Down All Afternoon

sucks.

Now I know how those early eBay sellers felt when the site crashed every couple of months.  After six hours in the dark, Typepad has "no reason to believe" that all of its users recent photos, posts, trackbacks, etc., have been lost--even though they've disappeared from the blogs.  What a relief.  And Typepad's users now presumably have "no reason to believe" that these Typepad glitches won't keep happening until the end of time--and, therefore, no reason to believe that there's any reason to keep using the service.

Anyone have any suggestions on who to port to if Typepad can't get its act together?  WordPress?

Comments

[Mathew Ingram]

I would say Wordpress is your best bet. Of course, it might get overloaded by all the people switching from Typepad :-)

[Charlie Wood]

This outage brought down not only my firm's public blog, but more important the private blogs I use to communicate directly with my customers. I understand about startup growing pains, but this isn't going to work for me.

I'll be setting up a Movable Type server in the hosting center where we operate our web services (Spanning Salesforce, etc., which have had 100% uptime since going live) and moving all of our blogs there. Henry, email me if you'd like to move your blog to that enviornment and I'll help with the details.

-Charlie

[Chris]

Henry - I would suggest blogger. I mean who knows more about keeping massive infrastructure running than Google? While some of the featuers (categories, etc.) might not be there yet, the servie always works, is free, and has a rapidly growing development community.

This isn't a paid endorsement but it does work well.

[George]

I would tell you to get your own hosting and install wordpress to it. Why would anyone want to use this blog host is beyond me, unless your the typical blogger who blog about personal stuff.

[Rogel]

I'm using a wordpress on my own domain (hosted by http://hostmysite.com/hosting/blog/) and I'm very happy with the service.

[Zoli Erdos]

Deja Vu. I've seen it in 1977. Yes, I know there were no blogs back then... but what's going on here is akin to the growing pains of the day trading industry.

I was stupid enough to do it full time for a while, before the term "day trading" became fashionable and half the nation gave it a try. Broadband was scarcely available, the first direct access trading firms were barely out of Beta status. In a year and a half I went trhu 3 of them, tested a four.

Typically after the pain became unbearable (outages, losses), I switch to the then promising new and stable provider. So did the increasing number of other traders, bringing the "new" provider to it's knees with in 1-2 months. In the meantime the "old" service I left behind pulled their act together, fixed their systems and stabilized.

That's exactly what we are seeing with the blog explosion. Which means, they will ALL have growing pains, you might as well sweat it out wherever you are now. (IMHO).

[iwebstreet]

Henry - I would suggest blogger. I mean who knows more about keeping massive infrastructure running than Google? While some of the featuers (categories, etc.) might not be there yet, the servie always works, is free, and has a rapidly growing development community.

This isn't a paid endorsement but it does work well.

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