Status Update (was Scheduled Maintenance)
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As some of you probably have noticed, WordPress.com has not been her usual speedy self today. The technical reasons for this are somewhat complex, but it boils down to some network problems with a couple of our bandwidth providers.
Last night they attempted to complete a upgrade to their routing infrastructure and during the maintenance some related hardware failed causing the downtime yesterday/early this morning. We are still combing through the logs, but it looks like we suffered from 2 simultaneous network outages in 2 different datacenters, making things even more difficult.
I have been working with our providers throughout the day to attempt and fix the various networking oddities we have been seeing, but they have been unable to. As a result, they have scheduled another maintenance from 5AM to 10AM GMT on Sunday 8/26 so they can revert the changes (upgrade) from last night. This will hopefully correct the myriad of issues we have been dealing with over the past 24 hours and bring everything back to normal.
We have been working throughout the day to move various things around so that the impact to the site during the maintenance is minimal, but you may experience some issues as the traffic is re-routed around the links which are undergoing maintenance.
Thanks again for bearing with us and things should be back to normal in no time.
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So that’s why I can’t get my jpegs to make it through the “Save” process! I thought it was something I was doing wrong. Thanks for the heads up. I’m going to bed now and try again tomorrow afternoon!
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That’s very bad. For those of us in the other part of the world (eg. India), you deny our readers access to our blogs in the middle of a Sunday.
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// technical reasons for this are somewhat complex
Is this because of hackers or virus or any sort of?
I wish wordpress gets herself as soon as possible… Coz I am addicted to wordpress.. :) -
I have a question about how to put on extras. How do you put on links to put on the links to put on the side bar?
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oh well. time to leave my blog for a while and do something offline. thanks for updating!
hope it’s up and running by the time i get home! -
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Thanks, WordPress team! Even thought it’s Sunday afternoon here (Malaysia), too, I think it will be OK for the best service they provided.
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But I thought everything was infallible ;) No probs guys, we know you’re not doing it to be mean and suck money out of us. <3!
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