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?"

submitter, you suck

[PavementPizza]

Your summary implies that the latest Typepad outage has something to do with their datacenter move of October. It does not. They had a hard drive problem that they noticed during routine maintenance. [sixapart.com]

Of Course We Stay

[JenovaSynthesis]

If the outage was every other day or something, I could see a mass migration but when you've built up a blog/livejournal/etc. you cannot just pack it up and move it most of the time so you just stay an deal. Plus there is the social networking factor involved as well.

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.

Re:What are the other choices?

[lachlan76]

IIRC, they allow you to send it to an FTP server so that you can host it yourself.

Self Hosting

[Noodlenose]

Er, why use the so called "professional blog services" at all, when you can host your own blog for a couple dollars? [dyndns.org]

My setup:

• A 6 year old IBM NetVista (cost 100 NZ dollars)
• Wordpress [wordpress.org](free)
• Ubuntu [ubuntulinux.org](free)
• Dyndns [dyndns.org](free)

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???

Re:Self Hosting

[daverabbitz]

Are you serious? In New Zealand? 128K Upstream is the best I can get for under $500 p/m.
Hosting anything on that is likely to nuke your connection if you have anything remotely popular.
I'd rather pay $20 p/m for colo and be done with it.

Re:Just get hosting

[rfunches]

One problem with hosting is that some companies, especially those in the budget range, frown upon CPU-intensive processes. Movable Type, Six Apart's blog publishing system for servers, was known to be CPU-intensive until recently, and several hosts banned MT (along with message boards like YaBB). While there might be roughly equivalent uptime, you might be limited in your options -- the hosting company might only provide a crappy version of blog software, or disallow them entirely.