If you have a TypePad blog and were trying to publish posts on Saturday, you’ll have encountered some downtime TypePad experienced for some hours. It meant that you couldn’t log in to your blog account on the TypePad servers for about three hours. The live blogs themselves weren’t affected.
Downtime isn’t unusual from time to time with any hosted service – a server problem here or a network problem there, for instance. What would be nice is if you could see what’s going on rather than sit wondering what’s going on.
Well, you can. Six Apart, TypePad’s owner, has a TypePad Status Weblog with posts on service issues that arise. Even better, there is an RSS feed so you can get the news in the comfort of your RSS reader.
Another great tip from Constantin Basturea, that man of many talents!
I found the status blog last week and also used it on Saturday when I couldn’t log on. I wish every service provider (ISP, Phone etc) would provide a RSS Status feed!