Wordpress down Archive

As of 11:30pm Eastern Time, it appears that WordPress.com hosted blogs are down and aren’t loading. Twitter search is showing many reports coming in every minute showing that the blogs are down.

The WordPress Twitter account notes, “WordPress.com is currently experiencing a network outage. We’re working on getting things back up ASAP.”

And loading any WordPress blog returns the following message, “WordPress.com is temporarily unavailable. We’re working on the issue and things will be back up and running ASAP. Please check back in a few minutes.”

Popular technology blogs GigaOm and Techcrunch are also displaying the above message. Both sites are hosted on the WordPress VIP program.

Automattic, the parent of WordPress, has a full health service dashboard which the company notes provides real-time status on all of their products. The dashboard also notes that commenting service IntenseDebate is also currently down.

Update: 12:08am Eastern – sites are back! Go browse cat photos! I am wondering with all of the downtime this week across a number of major sites if we should just turn off the whole Internet this Sunday, go outside, be with people and come back fresh on Monday.

As always please report in if your WordPress.com blog is down or you are unable to access the blogs you enjoy reading.

As of 9:00pm Eastern Time, it appears that WordPress.com hosted blogs aren’t loading. Twitter search is showing many reports coming in every minute showing that the blogs are down.

The last outage for WordPress hosted blogs was back in February of this year. The outage affects major sites including Failbooking and other Cheezburger sites, major tech blogs Techcrunch and GigaOm and somewhere between “thousands” and “millions” of other blogs hosted by WordPress.

The message is the same on all WordPress hosted blogs, “WordPress.com will be back in a minute!” Well it’s been longer than a minute :)

In case you are not familiar with how the WordPress blogging software works, here’s a basic overview. You can choose to host the software on your own server which is called “self-hosted” or you can have WordPress host your blog using their servers. Some of the larger blogs pay WordPress a fee to be part of their “VIP” hosting program. Somehow I am sure all of the VIP customers are calling their WordPress representatives to find out why the service is down. There are pros and cons of both the self-hosted and hosted versions of WordPress.

Update 9:45pm: WordPress is back, here’s the latest from WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, “The vast majority of blogs are back up, bringing up the rest over the next few minutes after we verify them.”

As always please report in if your WordPress.com blog is down or you are unable to access the blogs you enjoy reading.

We’ve received several anonymous reports over the past 10-15 minutes that WordPress.com is down. Testing the site now from multiple locations, it does appear to be down.

I have checked about 10 known sites using the WordPress.com hosted WordPress blogging tool and all appear to be functioning normally. What I am unsure about is whether posting to a wordpress.com site is working.

Please report in if you are hosted on wordpress.com and are experiencing any issues.

Update 12:45 Eastern: still down

Update 2:45 Eastern: still down

Update 2:51 Eastern: WordPress.com is back up – apparently there was a DOS attack last night. From WordPress:

“Yes, currently wordpress.com is still under a relatively large Denial of Service attack. While we work to mitigate the situation, we have temporarily disabled the site so that it does not affect the availability of your blogs.”