Blog Services Outgrow Their Data Centers 153
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?"
Aboslutely Not (Score:5, Insightful)
Absolutely not. They will all stop blogging en masse and the blogosphere will cease to exist. What a brilliant question.
Oh please God. (Score:1, Insightful)
I'm not saying the blogosphere is the most useless thing on the net, because I really favor slashdot.
I will say that at least we slashdotters don't think we're "journalists."
who cares about the bloggers? (Score:5, Insightful)
Good for them! (Score:3, Insightful)
All things may be equal. (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
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Re:Yes they will (Score:3, Insightful)
Ever tried using a LiveJournal account to comment on a Myspace blog? Not gonna work. (Ironically, the people behind LiveJournal are the ones who set up OpenID [openid.net], which may make this possible some day.)
This is, of course, a generalization. You can find blogs on LiveJournal, TypePad, Blogger, etc. that are aimed at a general audience and have simply chosen a hosting provider. But in most cases, you'll find that the active readers -- the ones who hold conversations in the comment threads -- are all on the same blogging service.
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.
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