We’re back online ... finally Well, what a day it’s been. Some sort of computer crash crippled our blog-hosting company, TypePad, on Thursday night (did someone fall off the photocopier at the holiday party and hit their ass on the server?). Now it’s 9 p.m. Friday, and we’re finally able to log back on. The items we posted in the past week, which went AWOL after the crash, are back up, although all the photos and illos are still missing. Hopefully they’ll be retrieved eventually. Someone said to us today that TypePad customers, being bloggers with itchy trigger fingers, are the last people the company would want to piss off. But we’ll refrain from piling on and just apologize for being absent all day today. Anyway, it’s the weekend. It could be worse. —Posted by Tim Nudd

December 16, 2005 | Permalink

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Bummer that you guys were down and your images might be forever lost.... We won't pile on, but i thought i would share this one little thought with you. Why businesses and media publishing companies should seriously consider a blog platform more robust that a $15.00 a month solution.

Blogging is now a major media outlet and increasingly valuable with the syndication aspects that accompany blogs (rss/xml). Businesses need to wake up to this fact and seriously commit to a blogging strategy and platform. VNU needs to look closer at this potential weak point. Potential bad branding implications...

But i will say we enjoy the content when it is up.

Look at the flickr photo link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/53212943@N00/74065242/

Saheed

Posted by: saheed | Dec 17, 2005 12:01:18 AM

Yeahhh... my blog is on TypePad... And, I am very pissed that it was down for two days... And the visual content is still missing. Don't these wankers realize that serious bloggers... Not those showing their latest baby pictures, or the latest choco fudge recipes... Need to be up 24/7.
Wankers!!!

Posted by: George Parker | Dec 17, 2005 6:56:42 PM

I've been pretty frustrated with my service lately... This was a BIG service issue, but there have been a ton of "mini" outages over the last several months.

Posted by: John | Dec 19, 2005 9:02:20 AM

You're probably already aware, but some of your permalinks still are screwed up from the outage (par for the course, from what I've seen on other TypePad blogs). For instance, I tried to link to the Lexus Christmas sales post:

http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2005/12/jeremy_peters_o.html

No go.

I'll repeat what I told others on TypePad: If I'm paying for the service, I expect minimal outages, and certainly nothing on this scale. Otherwise, I might as well go with a free service like Blogger/BlogSpot.

Posted by: CT | Dec 21, 2005 8:35:58 AM

Thanks, we have noticed that. I think we're going to have to go into each post and resave it. That will be fun.

Posted by: Tim Nudd | Dec 21, 2005 8:43:11 AM

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