This was taken directly from my Webpage since Publishing on Blogger.com was impossible yesterday.
If you use Blogger.com, you may be having problems publishing any of your content. I found out the hard way.
I wrote and published an article early this morning. All seemed as it should. When I hit the publish button, it returned 100% Published. Then I Republished the entire blog, which is what I normally do. Also 100%.
After pinging all the Feeds I use, Blog and RSS alike (also returned OK), I checked my Blog to see if some additions to the sidebar looked as they should.
That is when I discovered that my article was missing. I tried to recover it, but couldn’t find the post anywhere. I did check the Dashboard to see if any maintainence was scheduled, nothing since November.
I sent an E-mail to support at Blogger, hoping they may be able to find my post (it is long, and I didn’t feel like rewriting it). In response I got a form letter telling me to check the help option. They also had a link to the Blogger Status page, which can not be found anywhere in the help option, and I checked there.
Apparently they have been having “unscheduled outages” off and on since January 26th… From Blogger Status Page:
Thursday, January 26, 2006
We’re now recovering from a 15 minute outage. Apologies for the unscheduled downtime.
Posted by Jason at 16:10 PST
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Okay, big lead time on this one. Lots of time to prepare yourself.Blogger and Blog*Spot will be offline for approximately one hour from 7–8PM this coming Monday, February 6th. The little outage indicator will kick in Sunday night to remind you.Thursday, February 02, 2006
We’re recovering now from a unscheduled outage of about 20 minutes. As Pete mentions below, we are almost finished migrating from some unreliable hardware. This should help to prevent downtimes like this.
Posted by Jason at 18:39 PST
Blogger.com is now back from a 45 minute outage. Two outages in one night. I feel like Dante from Clerks: “I’m not even supposed to be carrying the pager today!â€We’re really sorry about this spate of random downtime. As Jason mentioned, I mentioned that Monday’s fixup will lessen these types of outages in the future. The Blogger and Google engineers and ops folks are not just sitting around waiting for the next failure; we’re actively improving our infrastructure to lessen both the planned and unplanned Blogger outages.
Posted by Pete at 01:37 PST
Blogger.com is back working again, again. Unscheduled outage hat trick tonight. As I get more information from our worldwide operations team I’ll let you know a bit more of why Blogger.com went down, and what we’ve done to keep this particular problem at bay.
Posted by Pete at 03:49 PST
Friday, February 03, 2006
We are currently experiencing some problems with Blog*Spot. A percentage of blogs are completely inaccessible. For others, you may need to reload a few times before you connect to a web server that will serve them. We anticipate things will be calmed down within the hour.Update, 5:20PM: Blogger and Blog*Spot should be fully operational with the exception of one of our file servers. This means a percentage of blogs will be unpublishable and inaccessible. We are currently waiting for a lengthy disk integrity check to complete on the file server. There may also be transient delays serving blog pages while our load balancing evens out.Update, 8:00PM: The Blog*Spot web servers are coming back online with connections to the file server that was out for most of the evening. (Its disk is totally okay, btw.) So, within the next 10–15 minutes everything should be completely back to normal.Again, super major apologies for this.
Posted by Pete at 16:02 PST
They didn’t get around to saying anything about today’s problems. I’m quite sure they will apologize for the outage again. That, however, will not help me or anyone else who posted thinking everything was OK. If they wre having problems, that’s one thing. But knowing you are having problems and waiting for someone to complain before you admit it, is another question.
Don’t forget, Blogger.com will have a “Scheduled” outage on Monday February 6th for an “Hour”.
They didn’t get around to saying anything about today’s problems. I’m quite sure they will apologize for the outage again. That, however, will not help me or anyone else who posted thinking everything was OK. If they wre having problems, that’s one thing. But knowing you are having problems and waiting for someone to complain before you admit it, is another question.Don’t forget, Blogger.com will have a “Scheduled” outage on Monday February 6th for an “Hour”.