29th September 2009

A Great Reason to Host Your Own

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Here’s a great thread where someone had a typepad blog where they celebrated their baseball team, switched teams, and the good folks at typepad gave her blog to someone else.

Note that typepad later fixed the situation.

Any time you have your stuff on someone else’s service, you run this risk. This site is on Site 5′s servers, and it’s theoretically possible that someone could pretend they’re me and take control. I can only hope that site5′s support would quickly resolve the issue.

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  1. 1 On September 30th, 2009, ginevra - TypePad Community Manager said:

    true enough, running a site on someone else’s server always comes with a bit of loss of control. We really worked quickly to fix the problem, and this was a mistake on our part. I don’t have a lot of info on the specifics, but we did flub this one.

    Thanks for noting that we got it fixed. :D

  2. 2 On September 30th, 2009, rustifer said:

    Heh, makes me glad I wasn’t vicious.

    Stuff happens. I’m glad you folks stepped in and helped her.

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