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UPDATE: Blogger is back
In a blog post, Blogger explained that during its scheduled maintenance data corruption occured and "impacted Blogger’s behavior."
"What a frustrating day. We’re very sorry that you’ve been unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours. We’re nearly back to normal—you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored. Thank you for your patience while we fix this situation. We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we’ve also felt your pain," Eddie Kessler, tech manager for Blogger wrote on its blog.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Scheduled maintenance has caused an extended outage for free blogging platform Blogger (www.blogger.com), according to a report by Netcraft on Friday. The maintenance was scheduled for Wednesday but the platform is still running in read-only mode while the problem is fixed.
Bloggers have taken to Twitter to complain about the outage, and some are worried that their scheduled posts will be lost. There is also frustration around lost posts and comments. Netcraft says posts and comments made on Blogger after 7:37 am on Wednesday have been temporarily removed, according to Google, since Blogger has rolled back to a previous maintenance release.
Blogger has been updating its users via its Twitter stream and its most recent post says it has started restoring the posts that were removed.
Though there has been some speculation that the outage was caused by the implementation of a new user interface, Netcraft says, Blogger claims this isn't the case.
Ed Bott in a blog post on ZDNet wonders what would happen if this outage happened to another free service like Google Docs or Gmail.
"Google has owned and operated Blogger since 2003. It’s not like they’re still trying to figure out how to integrate the service into their operation. If it can happen at Blogger, why can’t it happen with another Google service?"
Blogger expects the site "to be back to normal soon."
Blog hosting site Tumblr experienced nearly 50 hours of downtime over two months last year, and has since raised $30 million to fund a data center expansion. In December, Tumblr blogs were unavailable for almost 24 hours.
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