Constantly Waiting for TypePad

'Waiting for TypePad...' is a phrase I have now memorized when it comes to publishing posts to any of my blogs. This last week has been exceptionally frustrating. I write posts offline using TypePad. It should work, but it doesn't. What's been happening is that, on average, about two posts out of five don't publish correctly usually due to a server time-out or data-receive error. That's generally been the case for many months. It means I then have to log in to TypePad and re-publish from there. A real pain. This past week, though, such errors from TypePad have been the case with every single attempt at publishing a post. Today it's worse - when I start ecto and it checks in to the TypePad server to refresh the published blog entries within ecto, it gets a server time-out or data-receive error. So well before writing and posting, there are server time-outs. The ecto error log shows one of these phrases in every entry: System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed-out. System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. While I've asked TypePad Support about server time-outs before, I've sort of lived with these errors as they haven't totally prevented me from posting. Until now. It's got beyond purely a pain - this is massive frustration. I posted a TypePad support help ticket yesterday. No reply so far, although it's only 24 hours. What is going on here? In ecto Windows support forum, he wondered whether there may be issues with TypePad's servers (overloaded) or that my blog databases are too big. I have no idea! All I know is that whenever I use this software tool (ecto) to publish content to my blogs, it either doesn't do it properly or doesn't work at all. Is this an ecto issue or a TypePad problem? I have no idea, although I'm pretty sure it's more likely a TypePad issue - Reader Comments... Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: