Wordpress Hosted Blogs are Down

The big mass of PHP spaghetti has finally become self-aware -- and it killed itself. And people say artificial intelligence isn't...

My lolcats. Nooooo!<p>(Sadly, I did discover the outage when I opened my morning read of Fail Blog / Graph Jam / I can haz cheezeburger / Oddly Specific / Photobomb / WTF Pictures / Ugliest Tattoos / Failbooking. Does admitting that mean I'm no longer qualified for HN?)

Wow, I'm surprised TechCrunch is included in this, you would think they have a bit more of a redundant setup.

Of course this happens just hours after we launch a new video and are getting lots of traffic from hackaday.com (which is apparently WP hosted)...<p><a href="http://www.nerdkits.com/videos/digital_calipers_dro/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nerdkits.com/videos/digital_calipers_dro/</a><p>So looking at our server logs now, we're largely seeing hits to that page from Google Reader (I guess it cached their RSS feed?).

This means that Techcrunch is down, and @arrington is gearing up for a nervous breakdown after his 4th or 5th provider switch in 2 years.<p>Eventually I would think that they would belly up to the bar and implement a redundancy solution that involves multiple solutions. Then again, I am an infrastructure architect, not a blogger, what do I know?