I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape about this sort of thing (see also: rackspace, twitter, gmail, etc). Do they expect 100.00% uptime? There are 8760 hours in a year, I'm not sure how many hours wordpress hosted sites have been down this year, but I'd guess the number is probably within reason. If it goes down for an entire day, or for an hour every week, then maybe it would be time to talk about it being a problem.

I actually think this is why: http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/ and it has already happened a couple times

I have to say that that is awesome uptime overall. Considering the amount of blogs and sites running on WP.com

TC should switch to some other hosting.. then they would experince downtime...

If I had uptime like that, I would be praising the host for the uptime and patting them on the back, because they probably get a ton of shit from other people all the time.

Anyone else surprised that TechCrunch is hosted on Wordpress.com?

Now that I think about it, I expected a tech-oriented like techcrunch to be hosted on something a little more exotic.

If I recall correctly, they moved to Wordpress VIP due to downtime and security concerns they had at Rackspace, their original host.

>they moved to Wordpress VIP due to downtime and security concerns

>Wordpress

>downtime...security concerns

Sounds well planned.

if i recall correctly, which i am pretty sure I am, techcrunch hosted with media temple's complex hosting or whatever it is called. I believe the acronym was cx.

Goes to show that no hosting solution is immune to down time.

Second time in a few months... must be quite upsetting if you're paying VIP rates.

Gigaom, Flickr Blog, Gizmodo's Live blog and many other VIP flavours are all down.

In any case, it should say techcrunch.com will be back shortly, not wordpress.com

GigaOm is still down, 2/3 hours later.

its all back