TypePad woes
Seems TypePad is having some network issues. This morning all the blogs were down. Now they are back up…with about a week’s worth of content missing. Hopefully they do daily backups and not weekly.
In the event the data is lost, as a way to recoup the missing posts make a request to your readers if they have it in their RSS readers. If you do this though make sure you change the date to when the post was originially written so your permalinks don’t break.
I hope everything works out for Six Apart and their clients. I wonder what type of compensation they are going to offer this time?
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We make blogging software. We’d be remiss if we didn’t read and comment on blogs, now wouldn’t we?
Of course you’re right, everything we do ends up being big news (for better or worse) because we (and our competitors) enable people to communicate easily. That makes for a lot of blogs to read…
Take care and have a happy holiday!
Posted on December 27th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
I think it’s very cool that someone fromt he company came and posted here. Great job!
Perhaps this was “news” because they host bloggers and everyone was talking about it. A friend of mine site was down for several days, the entire server was effected, and it never hit blogs like this did.
Posted on December 16th, 2005 at 10:12 am
We actually republished everyone’s blogs proactively. All is back to normal now.
Posted on December 16th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Jay could you clarify something for me? The update says that no data is lost. Then it says that everything would be returned as of the recent snapshot a couple of days ago.
Do you know the actual date the last snapshot was?
Thanks!
Posted on December 16th, 2005 at 10:12 am
It seems like customers have to republish after it is restored.
Posted on December 16th, 2005 at 10:12 am
I wanted to start a blog and was thinking about using TypePad because it is easy to get off the ground. I am concerned about the recent issues, back to back.
Posted on December 16th, 2005 at 10:12 am
They have deep pockets. A lot of businesses depend on their ability to maintain their service. Daily backups are necessary but since the blogs have an export ability…the responsibility might fall on the blogger.
Posted on December 16th, 2005 at 10:12 am