Wed, 16 Jun 2004

Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice

Proving once again that you do, indeed, get what you pay for.

Citing the high costs of running the free service, performance concerns, and health problems, Dave Winer closed down the weblogs.com hosting service without any prior notice. As many as 3000 sites are now inacessible, and the users who want to transfer their data elsewhere have to ask (politely) for it to be exported. As might be expected, reactions range from understanding to enraged. Netcraft has a report, too.

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