Bursting at the Seams!

This coming weekend we will be conducting the final stages of a much needed cage move in our data center, as we have completely outgrown our space. We are not moving our machines far, but we are moving them. Thus, while the move is taking place (on January 22, 2005 at 11:00pm PST) the TypePad application may be unavailable, and access to published weblog content will be intermittent. We have scheduled this service outage during a time in which traffic is at its lowest to minimize the impact to our users and their readers, but we would still like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Update: the move is complete. It took a little longer than we expected, but the system was brought back up at around 2:30am and is now fully located in the new cage. Thanks for your patience!

Temporary Service Degradation – January 13, 2005

This morning between the hours of 12:00 am and 8:30 am Pacific time on January 13, 2005, the TypePad application suffered from a temporary service impairment. The problem occurred during a scheduled maintenance window while performing a system upgrade. During this time access to the TypePad application was severely impaired due to load issues associated with our database. While the ability for people to post comments to TypePad weblogs was hindered, published weblogs were not affected in any other way. The problem has since been recovered from, and steps are being taken to assure that the problem does not happen again.

The TypePad team, and all of us here at Six Apart would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone.

Scheduled Downtime September 25, 2004

TypePad will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for 4 hours starting Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 11:00pm Pacific time. During this time, your weblog will still be available for reading and viewing, but you won't be able to log in to TypePad to post, and visitors will not be able to comment on weblogs.

Stats Maintenance

During the course of some routine maintenance of our stats database last night (because stats are constantly being tracked on our servers, the stats database requires routine maintenance to keep it running quickly), we discovered some issues with one of our database tables that needed to be repaired. This caused about 8 hours of unavailability for viewing stats within the application; during this period, TypePad itself was fully available for posting, commenting, etc., but statistics (in Control Panel > Stats) were disabled.

We were able to recover all of the historical data older than 2 days, and all of the data received within that 9-hour period, which means that the statistics view within the application only shows statistics back for about the last 9 hours (as of about 9:30am Pacific time). We're sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.