WordPress.com Goes Down, TechCrunch.com Goes With It

WordPress.com isn’t perfect, mortal just like any other network. Today, there has been a flurry of people talking about wordpress.com being down, and for a fact, it is down right now.

This has been confirmed by WordPress.com staff:

[tweeted]http://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom/status/9302612517[/tweeted]

UPDATE at 2:55pm PST:

I will update this story as news progress.

[tweeted]http://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom/status/9305526818[/tweeted]

UPDATE at 3:16pm PST:

There’s some visible on the home page now, WordPress.com will be back in a minute!, but that’s it for right now.

[tweeted]http://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom/status/9307024063[/tweeted]

UPDATE at 3:32pm PST:

WordPress.com is confirmed back up and running.


The outage details were explained by Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress.com company blog.

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  1. Alice says:

    Let’s hope wordpress.com can recover quickly

  2. Tyron says:

    Seeing wordpress down time made me think any server can go down..and I was blaming my shared hosting server from long for lil bit of down time and was planning to move to VPS.. Now I guess I’m going to stick with them…

    • That’s because any server *could* go down, especially with shared hosting.

      We host wpvibe.com on a dedicated host and we haven’t seen any down time in over a year (we have other sites running on this same server).

      A VPS is a good solution for folks as it gives you the dedicated-type environment without all the resources you may never use — and lower costs than a dedicated server.

  3. gabe says:

    I’m hosted on a VPS and i can echo what Jonathan says. You can make sure your server is patched and and up to date to lower the chances of failure.
    A new alternative these days is cloud hosted sites which have built in redundancy.

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