WordCast » down http://wordcastnet.com Just another WordPress site Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:28:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 WordPress.com Goes Down, Blogs Experience Outageshttp://wordcastnet.com/2010/02/18/wordpress-com-goes-down-blogs-experience-outages/ http://wordcastnet.com/2010/02/18/wordpress-com-goes-down-blogs-experience-outages/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:17:06 +0000 davemoyer http://wordcast.bitwiremedia.com/?p=1124 UPDATE: As of 3:30pm Pacific time, WordPress.com is back online. Service appears to be fully restored. An official blog post has been published on the WordPress.com blog:

Today WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, our worst downtime in four years. The outage affected 10.2 million blogs, including our VIPs, and appears to have deprived those blogs of about 5.5 million pageviews.

For reasons currently unknown, the WordPress.com hosted blog service has gone down. It appears that no blogs or administration panels for any site hosted on the service are currently loading, including all free sites and more prominent VIP sites such as Technologizer, TechCrunch, CNN Network, and much of the I Can Has Cheezburger Network.

WordPress confirmed the outage about an hour ago on their official Twitter account:

WordPress.com is down, we’re working on restoring service now.

User responses are ranging from confusion, to support of the Automattic team in getting the site back online, to anger for the outage. A search for the term “WordPress” yields the latest.

Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg also tweeted from the account to reassure bloggers:

We’re investigating the source & most expedient fix. I hope to have everyone’s blogs back & running as soon as possible

Such outages are rare, and we trust that the team will learn from these technical issues to make the system even more robust from now on.

WordPress trend on Twitter by Twitscoop

Many turned to Twitter and began digging around the WordPress.org site and the , the online manual for WordPress Users, for answers. Finding none there, nor on the WordPress Development Blog, they turned to Twitter, which spiked WordPress and WordPress.com keyword trends (seen on Twitscoop).

Twitscoop - chart of WordPress keyword trend during outage

Stay tuned to WordCast here on the site and in real-time on Twitter for updates. You can also check the WordPress Development Blog for official posts, and @wordpressdotcom on Twitter.

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