In 1999, Blogger started as a small company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs. In 2003 Googlepurchased Prya Labs.

At that time they had 1.1 million registered users. Today the free blog service is seeing enormous growth. August 2006, Google’s Blogger service added 568K sites. They have outspaced GoDaddy according to reports.

But with all growth comes problems. Google has been taken a great deal of slack from the Blogspot blogosphere over recent outages.

If you are a Blogspot Blogger who is sick of all the problems then how do you think Blogger staff feels? Put yourself in their shoes for one moment. Problems arise ! Just as we have to upgrade our computer, hosting services like Blogger have to upgrade their servers.

Hardware malfunctions, servers crash etc. It may be a nuisance, but it happens.

Google Blogger has simply outgrown the current version of Blogger and Beta Blogger will no doubt be more stable.

Just as Microsoft releases new version to handle new technology, Blogger is upgrading to handle the traffic load of all those using Blogger.

I have been in Blogger shoes when my website todays-woman.net outgrew its shared hosting.

The Blogger team published an apology and are making changes to improve their services. I think those using blogger as their platform of choice should cut Google a little slack.

Just because it’s a free service that does not mean you are not responsible for your own blog by not keeping backups especially of your template in case something does go wrong.

Rose DesRochers

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