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WordPress.com hosted websites are down (It's back up after 1 hr)

35 points by melvinram 16y ago

melvinram 16y ago
Goes to show that no hosting solution is immune to down time.
thenbrent 16y ago
Second time in a few months... must be quite upsetting if you're paying VIP rates. Gigaom, Flickr Blog, Gizmodo's Live blog and many other VIP flavours are all down.
ronnoch 16y ago
Anyone else surprised that TechCrunch is hosted on Wordpress.com?
- adbge 16y ago
  Now that I think about it, I expected a tech-oriented like techcrunch to be hosted on something a little more exotic.
  - honopu 16y ago
    if i recall correctly, which i am pretty sure I am, techcrunch hosted with media temple's complex hosting or whatever it is called. I believe the acronym was cx.
  - covercash 16y ago
    If I recall correctly, they moved to Wordpress VIP due to downtime and security concerns they had at Rackspace, their original host.
    - alnayyir 16y ago
      >they moved to Wordpress VIP due to downtime and security concerns >Wordpress >downtime...security concerns Sounds well planned.
Zakuzaa 16y ago
In any case, it should say techcrunch.com will be back shortly, not wordpress.com
madmaze 16y ago
its all back
blehn 16y ago
I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape about this sort of thing (see also: rackspace, twitter, gmail, etc). Do they expect 100.00% uptime? There are 8760 hours in a year, I'm not sure how many hours wordpress hosted sites have been down this year, but I'd guess the number is probably within reason. If it goes down for an entire day, or for an hour every week, then maybe it would be time to talk about it being a problem.
- wwortiz 16y ago
  I actually think this is why: http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/ http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/ and it has already happened a couple times
arnorhs 16y ago
I have to say that that is awesome uptime overall. Considering the amount of blogs and sites running on WP.com TC should switch to some other hosting.. then they would experince downtime... If I had uptime like that, I would be praising the host for the uptime and patting them on the back, because they probably get a ton of shit from other people all the time.
petercooper 16y ago
GigaOm is still down, 2/3 hours later.

35 points by melvinram 16y ago

Goes to show that no hosting solution is immune to down time.

Second time in a few months... must be quite upsetting if you're paying VIP rates. Gigaom, Flickr Blog, Gizmodo's Live blog and many other VIP flavours are all down.

ronnoch 16y ago

Anyone else surprised that TechCrunch is hosted on Wordpress.com?

adbge 16y ago
Now that I think about it, I expected a tech-oriented like techcrunch to be hosted on something a little more exotic.
- honopu 16y ago
  if i recall correctly, which i am pretty sure I am, techcrunch hosted with media temple's complex hosting or whatever it is called. I believe the acronym was cx.
- covercash 16y ago
  If I recall correctly, they moved to Wordpress VIP due to downtime and security concerns they had at Rackspace, their original host.
  - alnayyir 16y ago
    >they moved to Wordpress VIP due to downtime and security concerns >Wordpress >downtime...security concerns Sounds well planned.

Zakuzaa 16y ago

In any case, it should say techcrunch.com will be back shortly, not wordpress.com

madmaze 16y ago

its all back

blehn 16y ago

I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape about this sort of thing (see also: rackspace, twitter, gmail, etc). Do they expect 100.00% uptime? There are 8760 hours in a year, I'm not sure how many hours wordpress hosted sites have been down this year, but I'd guess the number is probably within reason. If it goes down for an entire day, or for an hour every week, then maybe it would be time to talk about it being a problem.

wwortiz 16y ago
I actually think this is why: http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/ http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/ and it has already happened a couple times

arnorhs 16y ago

I have to say that that is awesome uptime overall. Considering the amount of blogs and sites running on WP.com TC should switch to some other hosting.. then they would experince downtime... If I had uptime like that, I would be praising the host for the uptime and patting them on the back, because they probably get a ton of shit from other people all the time.

petercooper 16y ago

GigaOm is still down, 2/3 hours later.