Outages

Sorry about the recent "Origin DNS Error" outages. This was a scheduled outage for maintenance by TypePad. Supposedly over now. I didn't have anything to do with it nor could I / can I do anything about it. I hope it won't be any more trouble and I apologize for any inconvenience it might have caused—

—The M.C. Without a Clue

Comments

[Roger Bradbury]

I'm also a Typepad blogger, so I knew not to visit TOP while this was going on.

I'm all in favour of planned maintenance, which is what this seemed to be. I suspect there was to be only one outage, but it all took too long/they found another issue/both the above.

Planned maintenance is always the first thing to go when costs are being cut, and it's a false economy; I've done industrial electrical maintenance and seen the results of not looking after things.

It always cost more to wait until something breaks rather than doing regular checks, especially if the bit of kit in question is urgently required back in action.