Downtime is suddenly blogworthy, as B5 Media, Blog Network Watch, Syntagma Media and Work Boxers are all notcing one another's web site outages.
Massachsetts provider Colospace opens its fifth New England data center.
The Data Center Talk discussion forum recently topped 1,000 members.
More bloggie downtime: del.icio.us has a lengthy outage after a data center power failure.
Six Apart's Anil Dash supplies additional information about the TypePad outage.
TypePad is having extended performance problems (again) after a disk failure wiped out exisiting sites.
Data centers can save on their electric bill by running servers on DC power, but the technology is too new for some data center operators.
Problems switching between data centers have slowed TypePad, the popular blog hosting service.