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Blogger is Down Again!
If you have a Blogger site and you post with regularity, they you have undoubtedly have been frustrated with the number of times you have tried to log in and blog, but the site is down.
“I, like many of you, will look upon this past week with irritation, disappointment, and maybe even a bit of anger.”
“…perhaps your own experiences to know that Blogger had a significant number of unplanned outages this last week.”
Well, the engineers have apologized:
“First up, our apologies. We really regret these outages, which were a nuisance (or worse) to you.”
and then teased with good news:
In the short term, we’re replacing quirky hardware and increasing our monitoring to stop problems before they start.
In the long term, we’re developing a new version of Blogger with some great new features that is built on technology and hardware that has proven, Google-quality reliability. The current Blogger infrastructure is “albeit in a very Lincoln’s axe way” the same that Google acquired four years ago. Sure, we’ve built on it and expanded it significantly since then, but the truth is we’ve more than out-grown it. The new version is ground-up more scalable and less error-prone.
The news gets better: We foresaw the need for the long-term solution, well, a long time ago. Long enough ago that it’s almost done, and you can use it as the new version of Blogger in beta. If you can switch to it (see requirements) you really should. The new version of Blogger is better in almost every way, including reliability. (It’s worth pointing out that none of this past week’s trouble affected the new version of Blogger or its blogs.)
Thanks Blogger, at least you aren’t trying to push it under the rug and act like it did not happen.
Thanks, I think!
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