Comments on: The Web 2.0 Hit By Outages http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/ Fri, 24 May 2013 19:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: neon http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112009 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:09:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112009 One of the issues Web 2.0 companies have in building solutions on the cheap is that they don’t plan for real scalability of their infrastructure. Which means that they melt down whenever their traffic/audience grows faster than their ability to add servers/gears.

]]> By: jim http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112008 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:14:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112008 I was going to mention the del.icio.us outage too — they said it would only be an hour, but it was several times that long. Something about moving servers or something — but it made me realize how much I use the damn thing.

]]> By: Helen Price http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112007 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:03:45 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112007 I think blogosphere is increasing at a high speed and nothing is melting down. It’s becoming an alternative source of media. Whichever one prefers.

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112006 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:00:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112006 Why would anyone in business and fed up with the TP service chose to move it to what amounts to another ISP? Surely the better alternative would be to think about this as an opportunity to evaluate the landscape and think about their aspirations around this medium.

]]> By: Om Malik’s Blog » Blog Archive » Big Week for Blog Tools http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112005 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:01:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112005 [...] After the big blog blackout of December 2005, many people are looking for options. WordPress.com is adding nearly 500 new blogs a day, and more recently Mr. RSS Dave Winer has started to play in that sandbox. But that’s not all. WP also has snagged a deal with Yahoo for hosting, much like Six Apart. The much awaited, WordPress 2.0 is finally coming out from under the covers, and is chock-a-block with Ajaxy goodness. (Good timing, don’t you think Jeff!) Also just announced, pMachine’s ExpressionEngine 1.4, a premium product I have become a fan of lately. pMachine folks are also offering a new free version called ExpressionEngine Core. One thing, which i would like to point out, TypePad, despite last week’s problems remains one of the easiest and simplest to use tools out in the market. Those who were affected by last week’s outage could easily take their data and port it to MT installed on Yahoo servers. (Pretty reliable, I presume!) [...]

]]> By: GrabPERF News » Creaky infrastructure survives the OM http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112004 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:07:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112004 [...] Yesterday, Om Malik gave GrabPERF some link love. [here] [...]

]]> By: The Newest Industry » GrabPERF Link Love http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112003 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:26:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112003 [...] GrabPERF Link Love December 16, 2005 Om Malik gives GrabPERF some link love today. [here]   The GrabPERF datacenter is currently lit up like a Christmas tree.   Technorati Tags : GrabPERF, Web+performance, Om+Malik [...]

]]> By: Betaflow.com http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112002 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:58:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112002 Web 2.0 Meltdown?

Over the past few days Web 2.0 technologies have received a lot of press, and not all of it is good. Are Web 2.0 upstarts skimping on scalability in hopes to get their product out the door faster? I’ll take a look at some of the big names in the…

]]> By: Betaflow.com » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 Meltdown? http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112001 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:03:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112001 [...] Finally, Om Malik has a nice article on the Web 2.0 leader’s uptimes. Surprisingly, blog host startup WordPress.com (based off of the WordPress.org software) was second only to Typepad in the most downtime. Other notable Web 2.0 startups with abnormal downtimes were Feedster (88.13% availability) and Blogdigger (89.23% availability). [...]

]]> By: pwb http://gigaom.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112000 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:36:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-web-20-hit-by-outages/#comment-112000 Because it may well kill your business.

No, it won’t. Online services *never* go out of business because of system scalability issues. They go out of business ALL THE TIME from not getting enough customers and not making money.

It crippled me since just about all of my bookmarks are there.

Would you listen to yourself? “Crippled” because your social bookmarks are down for a few hours???

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