Bloglines suffers a database crash

August 22, 2005 | By Duncan | Filed Under General

Bloglines has suffered a “database” crash (5:47am GMT) according to the Bloglines plumber who’s made a new appearance over at Bloglines with the following message:
“Hi, I’m the Bloglines Plumber. We’ve had a database crash, and we hope to be right back. Bloglines will be all better when I’m done with it.Thanks,The Bloglines Plumber”

At least they are being honest, but I wonder what causes a database crash?

Update: strangely so has Blogdex.

Further update: back again at 7:12am GMT. I can start breathing again :-)


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6 Responses to “Bloglines suffers a database crash”

  1. Elliott Bäck on August 22nd, 2005 3:27 am

    A database can crash because of overload, because a disk physically starts to die, because of hacking, because of overheating, because of bad configuration, because it runs out of resources, etc. There are a LOT of good reasons ;)

  2. Arvind on August 22nd, 2005 4:07 am

    Everytime I see these, I become more happy that I migrated to Newsgator!

  3. Arvind on August 22nd, 2005 4:08 am

    Everytime I see these, I become more happy that I migrated to Newsgator!

  4. John (SYNTAGMA) on August 22nd, 2005 4:59 am

    I use both and while Newsgator is much quicker than Bloglines, it’s more restricted in what you can do. I prefer the functionality of Bloglines even if the plumber make a regular appearance. It’s 9am GMT as I write and Bloglines is working as well as it ever does.

  5. » Bloglines corrompe su base de datos on August 22nd, 2005 6:46 am

    […] n el 22 de Agosto de 2005 12:48 · Noticias de: Bloglines
    Según puedo leer en el Blog Herald esta mañana, a las 5:47 GMT al hacer una búsqueda en Blogl […]

  6. martin on August 22nd, 2005 1:35 pm

    I’m on the side of NewsGator - pretty happy that I’ve gone with them. Once again Bloglines is crashing (it’s been happening way too many times lately) - my view on it is they are suffering from their own success: it’s the old “tipping point” theory … they’re a great little business with a cool idea but then it takes off and goes through the roof and then comes the scaling issues - it’s easy to serve 10,000 users but add a couple of zeros onto it and watch out.

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