WordPress.Com Goes Down Again

WordPress.com suffered a hardware failure yesterday bringing all the hosted Wordpress sites down including famous blogs like scobelizer.

The message from Matt:

Once More

We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.

We did some proactive maintainence whil the site was down, but we need to take things down one last time and do one more bit. Everything should be done by roughly 1:30 AM PST.

— Matt (still working)

This is why I think any blogger worth his salt (with exception noted below) should use their own hosting provider.

Note: This doesn’t include the famous bloggers like Scoble, who I am sure gets super special treatment (and perks?) etc. to host on WordPress.com or on similar sites. For you and me it is better to pay for a hosting provider. It is well worth it.