TypePad Blog Outage

Two of my blogs were out last weekend for a while:

Blogging for Business and SantaBlog.org

Turns out that TypePad, one of the big players in the blog software (owned by SixApart), had serious problems. Now they have been having, and admitting, to growing pains, but this was a catastrophe. Not for me as Blogging for Business is a new blog with only 50 or so regular readers who probably wouldn't tend to read on the weekend, and SantaBlog.org is just something I'm playing with (a half-baked charity).

Many have defended TypePad -- I'm not going to. Neither shall I pick on them, after all I recently chose them because I like them.

However, blogging is no longer just a fun little thing we play with anymore. Blogging is a serious business tool for many, for example IBM, Microsoft, General Motors, and scores of others. Serious business tools need to be robust - which means stable and reliable.

Not everyone gets this. Lots of TypePad apologists. Seth Godin, although admitting frustration, and I'm a big fan of the Bald Dude (tm), says "The amazing thing . . . is that all this stuff works at all!" That's not enough!

I'm sure TypePad is not being soft on themselves. I'm sure they are horrified at what happened. Supposedly they were putting in redundancy to avoid catastrophes like this when it happened - look it up yourself, I'm tired :)

I'm betting on TypePad myself. Is Vegas taking bets on whether this will happen again? I'll bet on TypePad!