Blogger is Currently Unavailable (May 12, 2011)

Yesterday, I was supposed to post a Cebu Pacific Promo.  When I tried to log-in, it prompted : Blogger is currently unavailable.  What a shock!

Blogger is currently unavailable.

And it further states that I should visit Blogger Status.  And so I did.  Here is what's inside:

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Blogger Status

Friday, May 13, 2011

Blogger is back now. We're still working on restoring some of the data. For more details, see this post: http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html

☼ Posted by Chang at 10:32 PDT

We’ve started restoring the posts that were temporarily removed and expect Blogger to be back to normal soon. 

☼ Posted by at 06:07 PDT

To get Blogger back to normal, all posts since 7:37am PDT on Weds, 5/11 have been temporarily removed. We expect everything to be back to normal soon. Sorry for the delay.

☼ Posted by at 04:25 PDT

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Blogger will be in read-only mode while we resolve some maintenance issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.

☼ Posted by at 12:34 PDT

Monday, May 09, 2011

Blogger will go into read-only mode Wednesday (5/11) 10:00PM PST for about an hour for maintenance.

☼ Posted by at 21:17 PDT

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

We've identified a problem rendering some blogs containing the popular posts widget. Our engineers are fixing the issue and the it should be resolved shortly.

Thanks for your patience in the mean time.

☼ Posted by Andrew at 01:25 PDT

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Postmortem for Blogger Service Interruption on March 16

☼ By Jinwoo Lee, Blogger Software Engineer

As we committed to you, when serious service interruptions occur we will provide you details about what went wrong and what we’re doing to help prevent similar problems in the future.

From about 9:55 AM PDT until about 10:20 AM on Wednesday, March 16, all Blogger users were unable to access the Blogger dashboard page at www.blogger.com and draft.blogger.com. No data was lost and blogspot was not affected at all, so your blog’s readers weren’t impacted.

We made brief status updates on our Twitter account. Meanwhile, we kept a close eye on the reports coming through our help forum and Twitter stream.

The problem was caused by human error. We wanted to show a small announcement on the Blogger dashboard and our code for it had a bug, which caused the problem. Once we figured this out, we quickly reverted the change.

We are truly sorry for any inconveniences this might have caused you. In the meantime, we will try harder to make Blogger a more reliable service.

☼ Labels: post mortem

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Upon reading all this, only then that I know that they have been doing this once in a while.  Had I know intended to make updates on my blog yesterday, I wouldn't have known about this.

I believe the main purpose is to update and upgrade Blogger so that it would give the bloggers like me a better blogging experience.

Great Blogger!  Great Google!