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Wordpress Hosted Blogs are Down
As of 4:40pm 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.
Interestingly, this outage comes just 10 days after the technology blog Techcrunch moved to the Wordpress VIP program. Top tech blog GigaOM, also hosted on the Wordpress VIP program is also down. It also appears the network of blogs run by Cheezburger are also down (including Failblog and Failbooking).
Wordpress.com is displaying the following message, “There was a small systems error. Please try refreshing the page and if the error is still there drop us a note and let us know.”
Update: shortly after the outage began, the official Wordpress Twitter account noted, “WordPress.com is down, we’re working on restoring service now.” We will continue to update this post with more information as we learn more.
Update 2: As of 5:15PM Eastern, the sites are still unavailable. Must be something major over at WP HQ.
Update 3: Wordpress is back – founder Matt Mullenweg notes, “We are back running at full capacity now. Closely monitoring services for any aftershocks.”
Final Update: Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg has provided a recap on the WP blog explaining what happened. The servers were down for just under two hours. Mullenweg notes, “We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our datacenter providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site. It also broke all the mechanisms for failover between our locations in San Antonio and Chicago. All of your data was safe and secure, we just couldn’t serve it.”
As always please report in if your Wordpress.com blog is down or you are unable to access the blogs you enjoy reading.
It’s almost 1 month that I notice this problem from my WP blog..should i move my blog from WP?
We host our blog on wordpress.com and it’s been down for an hour or so. http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com
Affecting their hosted stats as well, wow, I hope they’ll be back soon.
Mine is totally gone. Rather annoying; I was planning on doing some updates.
My blog on my domain is hosted by wordpress.com. I can’t sign into my blog or the support forums. The pages just keep loading – no time out error messages – spin, spin spin
my wordpress blog is down (again) … time to move to a more reliable provider?
Somewhere, some sysadmin is sweating. And John C. Dvorak should be adding this to his “Cloud Computing = Fail” arsenal.
We’ve used Wordpress for a couple of years now – first problem ever. Bet they are busy about now!!
How do I login to wordpress? I can’t find login button anywhere?
Downtime summary. WP was out for 110 minutes, worst in 4 years. Something upstream effected them, a router change I think.
When services like WP or Gmail go down for extended periods of time it kind of shows us a glimpse into what the future could be like. As more companies have major aspects (if not all) of their business in the cloud, what happens when the cloud goes down? Imagine if you Gmail was down for a full day and your entire business account relies on it? The repercussions could be severe. As enticing it is to integrate into the cloud, I think people and companies need to fully understand the importance of backing up hard data otherwise we’re going to see some major problems in the future.
just a curious question – why is everyone calling wordpress.com a “cloud” service? It’s just a hosting provider like any other – they are customized for the wordpress platform. Correct? Or am I missing something?
You’re missing nothing, Allen. That term is tossed around so liberally it’s almost entertaining. I’m sure hosting providers get a real kick out of it. ;)
WP.com probably feels like a cloud because publishers generally aren’t aware of a back-end or the quantity/degree of resources being used to power their blogs. Of course… until a rare outage like the one today occurs! The fact that WordPress.com feels like a cloud to a lot of publishers is a testament to their marvelous infrastructure. Four years is a long time to go without this much of a hiccup.
I don’t see why everyone freaks out so much when outages occur. It happens in everything, my cable goes in and out, land lines don’t always work, things just break sometimes. I think the key is the level of response from the company. In this case it seems WordPress did a pretty good job staying on top of the problem, and keeping people informed.
Seeing wordpress down time made me think any server can go down..and I was blaming my shared hosting server from long for lil bit of down time and was planning to move to VPS.. Now I guess I’m going to stick with them…
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