Blogging & the War on Tera[bytes]

Blog service provider crippled by storage glitch
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News Story by Lucas Mearian

DECEMBER 16, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - TypePad, a developer of self-publishing software for weblogs, said its service has been down since last night due to a problem with its primary storage system.

TypePad, owned by Six Apart Ltd. in San Francisco, said in a statement that it experienced the shutdown during routine maintenance of its network and storage systems last night. The company would only say it experienced an “issue” with its primary disk system where data from published blogs are stored.

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Trott wrote that the company is currently pushing about 3TB a day of network traffic through multiple pipes, "and that's growing by 10-20% each month."