Comments on: Blogs Currently Hosted by WordPress are Down

By: Wordpress Hosted Blogs Are Down

Wordpress Hosted Blogs Are Down — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:04:45 +0000

[...] last outage for WordPress hosted blogs was back in February of this [...]

By: Tyron

Tyron — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:18:05 +0000

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…

By: Travis Berry

Travis Berry — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:07:58 +0000

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.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:07:03 +0000

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.

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:26:09 +0000

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?

By: Ken Wohl

Ken Wohl — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:44:32 +0000

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.

By: Robert Lindsay

Robert Lindsay — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:19:49 +0000

Downtime summary. WP was out for 110 minutes, worst in 4 years. Something upstream effected them, a router change I think.

By: Jano

Jano — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:40:28 +0000

How do I login to wordpress? I can’t find login button anywhere?

By: Woozle

Woozle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:23:21 +0000

We’ve used WordPress for a couple of years now – first problem ever. Bet they are busy about now!!

By: Carpe Noctum

Carpe Noctum — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:45:09 +0000

Somewhere, some sysadmin is sweating. And John C. Dvorak should be adding this to his “Cloud Computing = Fail” arsenal.

By: martin

martin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:29:17 +0000

my wordpress blog is down (again) … time to move to a more reliable provider?

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:27:14 +0000

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

By: Reflectiongamer

Reflectiongamer — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:26:32 +0000

Mine is totally gone. Rather annoying; I was planning on doing some updates.

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:23:13 +0000

Affecting their hosted stats as well, wow, I hope they’ll be back soon.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:21:14 +0000

We host our blog on wordpress.com and it’s been down for an hour or so. http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com