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:
@wordpressdotcom: WordPress.com is down, we're working on restoring service now.
Feb 18, 2010 @ 09:45 PM from CoTweet Powered by TweetedUPDATE at 2:55pm PST:
I will update this story as news progress.
@wordpressdotcom: We're investigating the source & most expedient fix. I hope to have everyone's blogs back & running as soon as possible. - Matt Mullenweg
Feb 18, 2010 @ 10:54 PM from CoTweet Powered by TweetedUPDATE 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.
@wordpressdotcom: We are back running at full capacity now. Closely monitoring services for any aftershocks. - Matt Mullenweg
Feb 18, 2010 @ 11:28 PM from CoTweet Powered by TweetedUPDATE 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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Let’s hope wordpress.com can recover quickly
The network seems to be doing just fine now.
And as Matt posted, they are working towards creating an even more redundant system so this type of failure can’t happen again.
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.
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.