Scheduled maintenance coming: Lots of problems lately. I'm happy to report that Typepad (TOP's host) has successfully migrated to a new data center. More maintenance is planned, and you might have trouble logging on from Saturday night to Sunday morning, Eastern U.S. Time: "During a window from 9:30 pm U.S. Eastern Time on Saturday, October 29 (01:30 UTC on Sunday, October 30) to 9:30 am U.S. Eastern Time on Sunday, October 30 (13:30 UTC on Sunday, October 30), there may be periods where Typepad blogs are down." That's TOP's least-trafficked time of the week, so it might not be a problem for you, but be prepared for it.
Everyone should be seeing the header again.
In a separate matter, Norton assures me that TOP has officially been declared "Safe" and that its (Norton's) customers will no longer receive a danger warning from them (Norton) when trying to log on to TOP.
All is well. [UPDATE Saturday morning early: I spoke too soon. Typepad suffered DDoS attacks on Friday and was intermittently down. Every time this happens—there have been a few instances over the years—they manage to get it sorted out, so I'm hoping that with the maintenance tonight will solve the various issues. Sorry again if you've experienced any trouble.] Please remember that TOP might be down over Saturday night.
Mike
Scott: "Got the Cloudflare message a few minutes ago."
Mike replies: Apparently you'll have to contact them yourself, because as far as I can tell there's no mechanism for people like me to get in touch with them.
John Krumm: "The Cloudflare thing is likely just the new servers being cautious. I’ve seen it before after DOS attacks. Likely TypePad will have to fix."
Nope, no header. And there was a page from CloudFlare that said something about checking if the site was secure before landing here.
Posted by: Roger | Friday, 28 October 2022 at 12:37 PM
For the first time, I see no header. I'm sure it will show up sooner or later.
Posted by: John Krumm | Friday, 28 October 2022 at 02:09 PM
I think your system needs a rest day every week; something like the Sabbath to rejuvenate.
Posted by: Dan Khong | Friday, 28 October 2022 at 04:28 PM
The cloud fare thing is likely just the new servers being cautious. I’ve seen it before after dos attacks. Likely Typepad will have to fix.
Posted by: John Krumm | Friday, 28 October 2022 at 04:31 PM
not seeing the header from here at all...
Posted by: Dave | Friday, 28 October 2022 at 05:26 PM
Mike,
As you found, I suppose, it's possible to publish posts but not possible to upload photos.
I followed your example from a few previous occasions and republished a couple of older posts, in this case by copying and pasting them within TypePad's interface, which means the photos are already up there. One was from my first few months of blogging in 2018, the other, my first ever Monday Photo in 2020.
By the way, I also got a CloudFlare page for a moment when I came here.
Roger
Posted by: Roger Bradbury | Friday, 28 October 2022 at 06:16 PM
Hmm.…
I've never had that or any other problem in my 18 years with Blogger…
Posted by: Stephen Cowdery | Friday, 28 October 2022 at 07:42 PM
Hooray, your top TOP logo is back again after an absence of a couple of weeks.
But I first got a never before seen "Checking if your site is secure" notice before the site came up. Very strange. It looks OK now though.
Posted by: Peter Croft | Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 12:44 AM
Have you considered moving to a email subscription platform such as Substack? They offer paid subscriptions that you can charge for some content and they email out each post.
Posted by: Bryan Hansel | Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 12:13 PM
Hi Mike,
You might find this recent documentary about cameras used in space interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kovAmQ0jz4&ab_channel=CuriousDroid
David
Posted by: David Cook | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 at 01:38 AM