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Google Sends Apologies Across the Board

Posted by jonathan at 3:16pm EST on 10/27/2006

Google’s Blogger service had some planned and unplanned outages recently, rendering Blogger pretty useless to everyone in the world. The power outages and fileserver problems were part of the core issues causing the outages.

On Tuesday there was a planned outage to repair faulty hardware. On Wednesday another unplanned outage meant Blogger was down “for some time”, leaving users without access to either Blogger or BlogSpot. On Thursday there was a planned outage to replace the piece of network equipment that was causing the outages, according to Blogger Status.

Not very happy Bloggers in my opinion. Yet another reason why I host my own blogs and websites, I don’t like trusting other “free” services.

ZDnet

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  1. TechZ

    Oct 28th, 2006

    I wrote a small article on hosting your own vs wp.com blogs, and they both have their advantages, for one thing you know that if the free services is down for any reason, they’ll be very quick to fix whatever issue they may have.

  2. Jonathan Dingman

    Oct 28th, 2006

    I agree, there are both advantages and disadvantages to being self-hosted vs. wp.com or blogger hosted.

    I like having 100% control over every aspect of my website. I don’t like knowing that someone could easily just take over all the work I’ve done or even have access to it. I’m very protective of my data so I have a dedicated server which is where this site is hosted at.

  3. TechZ

    Oct 29th, 2006

    For most a dedicated server is out of the question, simply due to cost, basic shared/virtual hosting though is plenty for folks like myself.

    Again, with having a dedicated server, the advantages are multiple, I’d say that depending on your situation, plan for your blog, hosting should be bought.

  4. Radfem

    Oct 30th, 2006

    Yeah, I’m beginning to think you have to pay to get good service, after being unable to reliably publish on Blogger this entire weekend up to Monday morning due to more service errors.

  5. Jonathan Dingman

    Oct 30th, 2006

    Free is free. Nothing is gauranteed with free service, so if you’re serious, paid is always the better route. Blogger is mainly there for people who don’t care too much to be paying for a service but rather just want to blog for the sake of blogging.

    I’ve never used a free service for blogging nor will I.