I created my tumblr account on Sep 1, 2011. I was using it for my personal blog - http://blog.anujkumar.com . That link won't work because my tumblr blog is down as always. During this 6 month period tumblr gave me an unmatched uptime of less than 10%. Most of the time it was down. I was forced to mail their customer service again and again to get my blog up. They responed but again after a week or two my blog was unavailable. I'm unable to access my blog, my dashboard and even tumblr home page. All I get is this message on their home page -
"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're working quickly to resolve the issue."
I'm fed up of their service and due to them I have lost my faith in all hosted blogging service providers. What's the use of all fancy features when it is always down? Now, I will just go and use custom wordpress install on my own VPS hosting and that is what I will recommend to everyone.
In my last attempt to get my blog up (so that I can retrieve my old blog posts) I have sent them this mail -
Anuj Kumar, Mar 04 23:01 (EST):
Hi, my blog http://blog.anujkumar.com is down since months. In fact, it is
down most of the time. I'm also unable to access tumblr website as it
always says - "We're sorry. Our servers are over capacity and certain pages
may be temporarily unavailable. We're working quickly to resolve the issue."
May I know whats the problem and let me know how can I access my blog again?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tumblr response on Mar 05 05:12 (EST):
Hi
Thanks for taking the time to contact us about your concern, and we're sorry for the inconvenience.
We try to resolve any problem with Tumblr quickly, but some problems (like this one) take time to resolve.
We've shared the details of this problem with our engineering team and they'll fix it as soon as they possibly can. Due to our large number of users and the fast growth of our service, we don't have a specific time estimate for when this problem will be fixed.
"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're working quickly to resolve the issue."
I'm fed up of their service and due to them I have lost my faith in all hosted blogging service providers. What's the use of all fancy features when it is always down? Now, I will just go and use custom wordpress install on my own VPS hosting and that is what I will recommend to everyone.
In my last attempt to get my blog up (so that I can retrieve my old blog posts) I have sent them this mail -
Anuj Kumar, Mar 04 23:01 (EST):
Hi, my blog http://blog.anujkumar.com is down since months. In fact, it is down most of the time. I'm also unable to access tumblr website as it always says - "We're sorry. Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're working quickly to resolve the issue."
May I know whats the problem and let me know how can I access my blog again?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tumblr response on Mar 05 05:12 (EST):
Hi
Thanks for taking the time to contact us about your concern, and we're sorry for the inconvenience.
We try to resolve any problem with Tumblr quickly, but some problems (like this one) take time to resolve.
We've shared the details of this problem with our engineering team and they'll fix it as soon as they possibly can. Due to our large number of users and the fast growth of our service, we don't have a specific time estimate for when this problem will be fixed.