Either I have supremely bad tim­ing when it comes to try­ing to access their web­site, or their reli­a­bil­ity sucks of late. I nor­mally pop in to view or upload pho­tos every fort­night or month, and of the last four times I’ve tried to access it (count­ing uploading/tagging ses­sion as one “access”), it’s been unavail­able “hav­ing a mas­sage” twice.

I am slightly more grumpy (only slightly) about this because I pay for it. Obvi­ously it’s a sys­tem wide thing, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Blog­ger just drop­ping off the radar like that mul­ti­ple times in a cou­ple of months. Live­Jour­nal has been known to, but their com­mu­nity give them enough crap about it they know peo­ple are unim­pressed. (And, yes, MySpace does this all the time, but any­one using it as a bench­mark of tech­ni­cal excel­lence should be taken out and shot.)

It just all came back online & it was fas­ci­nat­ing watch­ing as dif­fer­ent parts of the site slowly came back together (pre­sum­ably the caching servers were all flushed and slowly fill­ing up again from the con­tent servers via load bal­ancers stop­ping the whole thing falling over again… so much geekage…)

Shrug, I’ll prob­a­bly renew when it’s time, just coz it’s so good to be able to dump a cou­ple of GB of pho­tos up there when­ever I want, and tag & search them eas­ily later on. Plus it’s cheap stor­age (poten­tially cheaper than Bin­goDisk, even, though obvi­ously more lim­ited in scope) which is always a good thing to have around.