Blog Services Outgrow Their Data Centers
Posted by
Zonk
on Fri Dec 16, 2005 06:54 PM
from the it's-fun-to-write-things dept.
from the it's-fun-to-write-things dept.
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?"
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Problems accessing... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/~Spy+der+Mann/journal/ | Last Journal: Saturday November 10, @01:50AM)
Re:Problems accessing... (Score:5, Funny)
4:16PM up 4 days, 6:24, 2740 users, load averages: 8.44, 7.42, 3.38
Mood: Slashdotted.
Aboslutely Not (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Absolutely not. They will all stop blogging en masse and the blogosphere will cease to exist. What a brilliant question.
Re:Oh please God. (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.unanimocracy.com/about.html | Last Journal: Tuesday April 04 2006, @12:04PM)
Yet the word journalist is more apropos for a blogger than a media careerist. Going back to the dawn of the printing press, you see much more emotion and variety until fairly recent times.
The media now seems locked in with one another. It is all Reuters and UPI regurgitation.
Bloggers that focus on consistency float to the top. My favorite 5 bloggers offer 80% of the news I read -- some of them are ex-media writers. I also read some blogs just to get a sens of alternate opinions.
My 5 blogs (2 public, 3 private) replace my e-mail newsletter (2 years running) that replaced my print newsletter (3 years before the e-news). My readership is down 95% as I attempt to transition, but I'm getting a much better view on who is reading and who isn't.
I'm committed to writing 7 days a week. I already spend 2-3 hours reading links mailed to me, why not set those links up for others with similar ideas? Is my attached opinion wanted by the readers? Only time will tell.
Rocky Performance, here I come! (Score:5, Funny)
Yes.
Please reference: the Microsoft product line
What are the other choices? (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.komar.org/hulk/)
Yea, there is Google Blogspot ... but even the big "G" has had
performance issues in the past. An option for /. readers is to
host a blog on your own site ... but that's not realistic
for the average Joe. This stuff is all free, so I think most
people are willing to grin and bear and suffer through some outages.
Plus I don't think the world is going to end if we are unable
to blog for a short while ... ;-)
P.S. Per my /. username, I did get a chuckle out of this quote from Bloglines - "Bloglines has been busting at the seams like the Incredible Hulk"
and yea, getting angry and transforming into a
Big Green Monster [komar.org] can really
wreck your clothing budget.
Re:What are the other choices? (Score:4, Interesting)
submitter, you suck (Score:5, Informative)
Re:submitter, you suck (Score:5, Funny)
Somebody really should invent some method of making a single disk failure a non-issue; perhaps, by using a redundant array of independant drives...
Expression (Score:3, Interesting)
Are we really surprised? How many people use the Internet on atleast a quasi-regular basis? I'm willing to bet that currently a large percentage either writes or reads a blog (likely both), and that those numbers are going to continue to increase.
-Da3vid-
Oh no teh 870905p43r3 i5 b0rk3d! (Score:4, Funny)
As longtime readers of Slashdot know... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.rockymusic.org/)
Hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm sure xXxDragonTearsQTxXx, however, is quite pissed.
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes. (Score:1)
if they believe the rocky performance is temporary
then Yes
else No
who cares about the bloggers? (Score:5, Insightful)
Will Bloggers Accept This? (Score:2, Interesting)
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/glider-kernel | Last Journal: Wednesday May 23, @09:48AM)
Keep in mind .... (Score:2)
(http://www.geoexpat.com/)
Finally, I'm sure Bush or someone will cockup and give the bloggers something more substantial to complain about other than the speed and performance of typepad.
I don't (Score:1)
Yes they will (Score:5, Interesting)
Singularity? (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.kevindawson.ca/ | Last Journal: Saturday October 22 2005, @10:39AM)
Is that a sign of this?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singul
well if that isn't, maybe this is?:
http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/computer/f
Heh (Score:2)
(http://geekymusings.blogspot.com/)
Good for them! (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://pages.sbcglobal.net/redelm)
All things may be equal. (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://amazing.com/)
The current situation with blogs looks about the same.
Blog services are sticky when they form a community of sorts. If you like the people you know through those services, you stick around. And if your web address is based on their site (i.e. xxx.blogspot.com), well, moving will cause you to lose all your readers, too.
So I would say the answer is yes, that people will stick to the services they enjoy, because they know that if they move, they'll get about the same level of service.
D
Just get hosting (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.carefreeinsomniac.com/)
Cruel (Score:4, Funny)
(http://nick.supersoma.net/)
A free soap box is good for most... (Score:2)
(http://ludditelounge.blogspot.com/)
*cough* (Score:2)
(http://empyrean.kyve.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 26 2006, @08:42PM)
People who use these popular services probably aren't smart enough to set up their own blogs, like 'professional' bloggers do. 'Pro' bloggers host their own blogs, and consequently aren't going to max out their webhosts data center.
And let's not forget, it's only temporarily 'rocky'.
Money Money Money (Score:3, Insightful)
Sure they have ads and stuff.. but do ppl really click those ads? Very rarely do I ever click ads.
The Other Six-Apart Hosted Service Is OK (Score:1)
Of Course We Stay (Score:3, Informative)
Plus it is not like users are getting shafted. LiveJournal has had problems come up once in a while and they compensate thier users for it with things like an extra month of service free and stuff like that.
Outages happen and it are a fact of life on the Internet.
Kind of a stretch... (Score:2)
The Upside (Score:2)
(http://houndwire.com/)
Like World of Warcraft? (Score:1)
(http://ordog163.freeshell.org/)
Like the legions of users who cope with the sometimes-rocky performance World of Warcraft? If some of these users are one and the same, the answer is yes.
If self hosting, what to use? (Score:3, Interesting)
I see several comments here about paying the $5/month and hosting the site yourself. Makes since to me, and I've been doing that for quite a while now. I've recently starting using blogging software from blogger.com [blogger.com] for my personal site [orner.net] instead of writing my pages from scratch because it makes it really easy to put up new pictures of the kids. However, I'm not sure how I feel about committing to a particular site like Blogger, even if I do host the site myself, as the blogging community shifts and twists as it grows.
What software is out there that's easy to set up that's more of a homegrown solution? I know of Moveable Type, but is there something else that the Slashdot crowd uses?
BTW: Am I the only one who thinks the term "blog" grates on his nerves much like "information superhighway" does?
--Lance
Blah Blah Blog! (Score:2)
It's strange... (Score:1)
Shane
Perhaps this is their chance.... (Score:2)
What are they talking about?? (Score:2)
(http://www.modmeup.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 23 2003, @12:35AM)
TypePad blogs are up, but are missing... (Score:2)
(http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/)
Ah well, at least my fascinating StringBuffer.append() [blogs.com] post is safe!
Blogosphere...more like Borosphere! (Score:2, Funny)
this is how you run a data center (Score:1)
See the report on sony data center that backs Everquest [ieee.org].
Networks. (Score:1)
Blogging is a passing fad... (Score:2)
(http://home.comcast.net/~rickrich1/)
Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept... (Score:1)
(http://www.thegamernation.com/Forums)
Self Hosting (Score:3, Informative)
(Last Journal: Tuesday March 25 2003, @11:59PM)
My setup:
Setting up taught me things I didn't know about MySQL, Apache and Ubuntu and I don't have to rely on a third party provider.
Profit???
Of course! (Score:1)
(http://www.ethereal-realms.org/)
A coworker recently quoted an article where someone had five iPods of various generations. All of them had broken and had been replaced, again obviously for this man it was not about quality but about having the rep of holding the newest nanon in his hands to show the coworkers.
People like to feel like they belong, these places allow them to congregate into flocks of sheep. Nothing new really and its going to take a LOT of puishment before they move off to any other alternative out there!
wonderful... (Score:1)
MySpace? (Score:1)
One solution: euthanasia (Score:2)
(http://www.macromobility.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday March 25 2006, @01:33AM)
Wikipedia on Blog (Score:1)
Re:BLOG???? (Score:2)
(https://openqabal.dev.java.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday October 14 2006, @01:51AM)
Definitely not. CEOs and high-ranking executives of some of the world's biggest companies blog. Blogging is very popular with software developers, who post all sorts of interesting observations, solutions to problems, etc. For example, I was recently struggling to work out how to share a Spring ApplicationContext across web applications in an app server. My first instinct was to store it in JNDI, but it turns out the class isn't Serializable, so you can't really store it in JNDI. I found the solution in some guy's blog, who spoke of the NonSerializableFactory class that JBoss provides. While I probably would have eventually stumbled into a similiar solution on my own, a blog saved me a lot of time, because someone chose to share their experience.
Re:BLOG???? (Score:1)