Today wordpress.com was down for a very long time.
It was down for 110 minutes.
The knockout (network related) affected 10.2 million blogs (including VIP blogs), that resulted in a loss of 5.5 million page views.
Now nothing was actually down…but one of wordpress.com’s network providers did a change to their network that sent wordpress.com crashing.
As a result the fail safes also did not work.
So while it was wordpress.com’s worse downtime in 4 years, it’s not that bad.
Glad that things are back up though 
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wow… 5.5 million page views in 110 minutes.. that just goes on to show how popular this blogging platform has become
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Yes, especially with the big blogs.
I’ve been at wordpress.com for almost 4 years and in that time downtime has been a a rare occurrence. The numbers of wordpress.com bloggers have grown rapidly during that timeframe.
I’m confident that there is an even deeper investigation of what went wrong, and exploring contingencies for putting a disaster plan in place to deal with any future outages going on behind the scenes right now.
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WordPress.com does have rare outages because of oops here or there but yes it is minor.
When blogger went down the response was Oops! Fixed!
Glad Matt was much more transparent on what happened.
Seeing wordpress down time made me think any server can go down..and I was blaming my shared hosting server from long for lil bit of down time and was planning to move to VPS.. Now I guess I’m going to stick with them…
WordPress itself wasn’t down but rather there network provider made sudden changes and it stopped serving WordPress requests.
Yes, especially with the big blogs.