Today WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, their worst downtime outage in four years. The outage affected 10.2 million blogs and appears to have deprived those blogs of about 5.5 million pageviews.

Wordpress is still dusting itself off and gathering the details.

"It appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our datacenter providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke it the site" states Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg.  He continued "It also broke all the mechanisms for failover between our locations in San Antonio and Chicago. All of your data was safe and secure, we just couldn’t serve it."

 "I know this sucked for you guys as much as it did for us — the entire team was on pins and needles trying to get your blogs back as soon as possible. I hope it will be much longer than four years before we face a problem like this again.

I'll bet!

Unlike some webhost, Wordpress continually provided status updates on both Twitter and the company blog and all sites appear to be up and running again