3 January 2006
Web 2.0 Cracks Are Showing
Posted by Ryan Sarver under: Business; Technology .
As has been reported all over the web more and more of the “Web 2.0″ companies are beginning to show cracks in their uptime and infrastructure. I am a huge proponent for these lightweight architectures but there have been increasing problems. Now to be fair, it sounds like the problems that Six Apart was experiencing was due more to hardware-related issues, but nonetheless, they were experiencing unacceptable downtime and data hiccups. Things were disappearing off my site, reappearing, only to disappear again. For extended periods of time I was unable to modify my site or to login to the Typepad interface. As a result, you are now reading my blog on a new server that is using Wordpress.
A few weeks ago I also was experiencing problems with del.icio.us and it has reared its ugly head again. Their RSS feed displayed the following message:
It’s a problem when a major site is totally “offline” but why, oh why, are they displaying non-rss content in what is expected to be a feed? It broke a bunch of the scripts that I have written and I can only assume it broke others. I can only hope that the Y! acquisition will help stabilize the service.
