TypePad, the blogging service that I use, has been highly erratic over the past two months. Apparently the service is growing so fast that they outgrew their capacity and had to secure new servers and hosting facilities. Evidently the new servers are not very reliable as the service went down for almost the entire day. If you have visited today, you have been looking at a replica and not the real thing.
Not only that, but the server crashed so hard that they had to use a backup of the blog from several days ago. As a result, posts, comments, and trackbacks that happened during this time disappeared. They have since restored the site and all appears to be working now.
I'm generally happy with TypePad, but they really need to work on service reliability. I have been keeping my eye on other services in case I have to make a switch at some point, but none have compelled me to jump ship just yet.
I will, however, make a backup of the blog. Suddenly the need to do this has risen to new heights, I mean, there's a lot of sweat equity in these here pages.
So what about you, fellow bike bloggers? Are you happy with your blogging service? Do you have a backup of your blog? Would it matter if your blog was wiped off the face of the earth and you had to start over from scratch?
