Is the Blogosphere Grinding to a Halt?
Slashdot.org has a summary today that says that several blogging services including Typepad and Bloglines are having infrastructure problems, particularly with their ability to store the unexpected number of blogs and their content.
Other potential problems for blogging services include the regenerating of a blog each time you post a new entry. This is done to add a link to the new entry on each previous entry. However, this is only true for those blogging platforms that generate actual HTML pages instead of serving pages up virtually, on demand.
WordPress does not do this, at least not without some special plugin, if such exists. WordPress generates pages on demand using programming code and a database. On the other hand, Blogger.com does generate hard pages. So for every new entry you post via Blogger.com, it takes even longer to regenerate the entire set of post pages.
Another problem that appears to be occurring in the blogosphere is that there are service bottlenecks at certain times of day, especially in North America. This appears to be 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, and sometimes around 9:30-10:30 pm. Now, please note that these are my own observations, and only for Blogger.com.
As a result of these bottlenecks, I make a conscious effort to post at different, less busy times. If you're suffering through similar problems, considering using a blogging platform, such as WordPress and MovableType, that gets installed on your own webserver. This alleviates the blogosphere bottlenecks. However, most such platforms serve pages virtually. If your blog becomes extremely popular (many thousands of visitors a day), page serving can and will start to get slower.
Links: Slashdot summary, Typepad problems, Bloglines performance.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
Other potential problems for blogging services include the regenerating of a blog each time you post a new entry. This is done to add a link to the new entry on each previous entry. However, this is only true for those blogging platforms that generate actual HTML pages instead of serving pages up virtually, on demand.
WordPress does not do this, at least not without some special plugin, if such exists. WordPress generates pages on demand using programming code and a database. On the other hand, Blogger.com does generate hard pages. So for every new entry you post via Blogger.com, it takes even longer to regenerate the entire set of post pages.
Another problem that appears to be occurring in the blogosphere is that there are service bottlenecks at certain times of day, especially in North America. This appears to be 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, and sometimes around 9:30-10:30 pm. Now, please note that these are my own observations, and only for Blogger.com.
As a result of these bottlenecks, I make a conscious effort to post at different, less busy times. If you're suffering through similar problems, considering using a blogging platform, such as WordPress and MovableType, that gets installed on your own webserver. This alleviates the blogosphere bottlenecks. However, most such platforms serve pages virtually. If your blog becomes extremely popular (many thousands of visitors a day), page serving can and will start to get slower.
Links: Slashdot summary, Typepad problems, Bloglines performance.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
