WordPress.com crashes, downs major blogs
February 20th, 2010
WordPress.com, the fast growing hosting service for millions of blogs, including TechCrunch and GigaOm, crashed briefly Thursday afternoon.
"WordPress.com will be back in a minute!" is the message that appeared shortly before 3 p.m. on some portion of the websites using the San Francisco blogging platform, which serves millions of blogs with a combined 72.2 million U.S. visitors and 237.3 million global visitors, according to Quantcast. Service was restored almost half an hour later.
WordPress, which is owned by San Francisco-based Automattic, is the brainchild of wunderkind Matt Mullenwag.
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