WordPress.com, the Internet’s largest blogging platform is down and has taken over 10.2 Million blogs with it.
We are working on restoring WordPress.com as quickly as possible.
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The good news is that the team are aware and hard at work attempting to get things back up and running. The bad news is that along with wordpress.com, the akismet spam detection plugin is also out and therefore it’s feeding time for spam bots. Apparently Akismet is working fine thanks to apparently being hosted separately.
There’s no word on what caused the problem but sites like TechCrunch and GigaOm have also felt the brunt of the outage and are currently down.
The last time this happened, it reportedly deprived 10.2 million blogs, including its VIP service blogs, of about 5.5 million pageviews. It’s kind of a big deal.
Update 1:
WordPress have sent a tweet updating its users that they’ve “isolated the issue on WordPress.com, and are working on a fix.”
Update 2:
WordPress seems to be back up, although no confirmation from WordPress that the problem has been fixed. Oh and TechCrunch isn’t happy.
Update 3:
Update from Matt Mullenweg, WordPress’ founder. The vast majority of blogs are back up, bringing up the rest over the next few minutes after we verify them.
Update 3:
Another update from WordPress. Blogs are their number 1 priority to fix, their homepage is down so that’s next, then their stats package. Clearly things aren’t in order just yet.
Update 4:
All down again.
Update 5:
And back up again. Not good this, not good at all.
Update 6:
All is reportedly back to normal now, if you spot any issues contact WordPress support: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
Yea this blows. My command-line is on hold until I can paste type c:\recycled\latest-blogpost.txt | call mtsend -N -a WordPressClint ….. hurry up!
It is at this time I’m glad I host my own blog. Too bad I’ll have to deal with scalability issues later…
This is also affecting the stats for http://www.handyguyspodcast.com and its a self hosted site!
this is very hard on my ocd….
someone should tell wordpress that a ‘minute’ is 60 seconds. ‘wordpress will be back in a minute’ is just false. wordpress… guys you’re great, but you can’t tell time worth spit.
People should consider posterous.com
Can you actually have a theme on posterous.com? At least with WordPress there is some sort of individuality.
yeah, you can – there are some gorgeous ones out there too.
All akismet servers are hosted seperately, it appears, and are still online and functional.
Yes, I can confirm that Akismet continued operating normally through the outage. Signups for new API keys were unavailable for a short period but spam checking services were and are 100% normal.
Just today I convinced my wife to move from Live Spaces to WordPress. Who’s the jackass now? Hmmmm, I wonder if that pesky Trojan I’ve been wrangling with had anything to do with this…
wordpress.ORG anyone?
its all good.. im writing a novel and having some time to myself.. i dont mind one bit.. one day no traffic, they ‘ll come back tomorrow and double it.
Well it’s back up now.
Its not fully up yet. Mine is still down. The wordpress.com front page is a bit “lacking” aswell. No login or search.
Funnny, I was just reading WordPress’s CEO comments on techcrunch’s blog right as the whole thing went down again. the Comments where something like “well most blogs are back up again including yours [Techcruch]
then it was all gone again. Including WordPress’s front page.
Yep my blog was up just fine then bam! 1:34pm PST down.
i like it :P
Question.. anybody knows how to get your market from twitter???
The bad news is that along with wordpress.com, the akismet spam detection plugin is also out and therefore it’s feeding time for spam bots.
Its down again :(
It’s back up