Change to core router by data center provider brings WordPress down

Change to core router by data center provider brings WordPress down

More than 10 million blogs affected

(2/18/2010)

Popular blogging platform WordPress was down for almost two hours on Thursday, following a networking issue at one of the data centers that host its servers. The outage, depriving about 10.2 million blogs of about 5.5 million page views, was the company’s worst in four years, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg wrote in a blog post. Mullenweg was the founding developer of software that runs much of WordPress “We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our data center providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site,” he explained. “It also broke all the mechanisms for failover between our locations in San Antonio and Chicago.” Mullenweg reassured blog owners that all their data was secure during the 110-minute outage and that WordPress would look for ways to “recover more gracefully next time and isolate problems like this so they don’t affect our other locations.” - wong chee tat :)