Blog Services Outgrow Their Data Centers

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?"

Problems accessing...

[Spy der Mann]

Damn! I can't access my blog! I have to blog about this... uh... damn.

Rocky Performance, here I come!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept rocky performance from popular services?"

Yes.

Please reference: the Microsoft product line

Oh no teh 870905p43r3 i5 b0rk3d!

[Bloke down the pub]

In other news, world continues to turn, sky still up there. Film at 11.

As longtime readers of Slashdot know...

[shawnmchorse]

Our willingness to accept rocky performance from popular services is the only reason we're still reading Slashdot today...:-)

Hmm...

[deathbyzen]

I think the blogging community, in general, is more tech savy than the average citizen. Hence, they understand that the difficulties are only temporary and, in the end, will be beneficial for the community.

I'm sure xXxDragonTearsQTxXx, however, is quite pissed.

Re:who cares about the bloggers?

[deathbyzen]

George Bush doesn't care about bloggers!

Re:Problems accessing...

[Tackhead]

> Damn! I can't access my blog! I have to blog about this... uh... damn.

4:16PM up 4 days, 6:24, 2740 users, load averages: 8.44, 7.42, 3.38

Mood: Slashdotted.

Cruel

[gibbo2]

Bloglines is apologising for performance problems, and you're going to Slashdot them on top of that? Guess that shows what people think of bloggers around here :)

Re:Yes.

[game kid]

I always thought bloggers were pre-programmed robots that spilled out random text. This source code proves it, I tell ya! ;)

Re:Hmm...

[xXxDragonTearsQTxXx]

Bite me.

Re:submitter, you suck

[multipartmixed]

You know, I've noticed that hard drives fail quite often, and take a lot of data with them.

Somebody really should invent some method of making a single disk failure a non-issue; perhaps, by using a redundant array of independant drives...

Re:Kind of a stretch...

[multipartmixed]

> ...to call blog content "data".

They still call all that stuff between the genes "DNA"

Blogosphere...more like Borosphere!

[cheesy9999]

I can handle certain word inventions like blog, blogger, AJAX, even Web 2.0 ... but for god's sake ... BLOGOSPHERE?

Re:Rocky Performance, here I come!

[kesuki]

Please reference: the Microsoft product line

I think you meant Reference: Slashdot.org error 503 service not available

more relevant to the current discussion ;)

Re:Heh

[Propaganda13]

That makes two of us. I'll have to make an entry in my personal wiki about this.

Re:submitter, you suck

[nsasch]

Sounds like a good idea, but the name? RAID (according to your initials) would never catch on, it's like the bug spray.
Maybe there should be different types, or versions optimized for speed, reliability, redundancy, hot swapping, etc.

Re:Aboslutely Not

[Anonymous Coward]

Absolutely not. They will all stop blogging en masse and the blogosphere will cease to exist.

We should all be so lucky.

Re:What's the "Btogosphere"?

[Headcase88]

No... just makes it more 1337.

Re:Money Money Money

[Anonymous Coward]

CmdrTaco?