As part of the planned upgrade to Blogit systems this weekend, we will be conducting system maintenance between 11:15 am and 12:00 pm Blogit time today.
We expect actual downtime to be less than 15 minutes.
Update 12:02 pm: System maintenance occurred during the period 11:36 am-11:46 am. All systems appear to be functioning normally. Please let us know if you experience any problems.
Blogit members,
As we noted last week, we have been working on a plan to improve reliability and expand capacity. The first phase to provide a temporary solution was implemented last week.
We're now ready to implement the second phase. This will provide a permanent solution that will improve reliability by expanding capacity to allow for future growth.
During the rest of the day, we will be implementing the first phase of the plan to improve reliability and expand capacity for Blogit.
We expect to keep any required downtime to a minimum. Required downtime should total no more than 2-3 minutes over the course of the day.
Update 11:48 pm 4/27/04: Full search of posts has been turned back on as of earlier this evening. Thank you for your patience.
While Blogit continues to safely host hundreds of thousands of posts and comments, technology is never 100% reliable. Please make sure to save a copy of your work on your computer or as a printout so that you always have a copy.
We very much regret the loss of your posts. As outlined in this post, we are taking immediate and longer term steps to increase reliability and capacity for the Blogit service.
Thank you for understanding.
Brian
Blogit Team
We have been working on a plan to improve reliability and expand capacity over the next three months. As a result of the recent server problems, we have decided to begin implementing this plan ahead of schedule.
The first phase of the plan, which will provide a temporary improvement in reliability by improving how data is stored, will be implemented by Friday.
Our hosting provider replaced some hardware that was malfunctioning. Unfortunately, instead of resolving the problem quickly, as was expected, this resulted in further technical problems that took a great deal of time to resolve.
At this point, Blogit is back up and running, but some posts were lost, and will show "This post cannot be displayed". We are working to try to restore these posts. To prevent the blogs that were in New Posts from gaining an unfair advantage, all views that occurred since the service interruption will not affect earnings or rankings.
We very much apologize for the inconvenience. We know how important Blogit is to all of its members, and we are taking this problem very seriously. We have outlined an immediate plan of action.
Update 4/22 6:30 pm: All posts appear to be available except certain posts that were created or edited between 4/18 4:00 am and 4/21 1:00 am Blogit time. All comments are available. We very much regret the loss of any of your work.