TypePad's Growing Pains

TypePad seems to creaking under the strain of its own success. For some weeks now, I've been observing (and experiencing) constant server timeout problems when posting to this blog. And I'm not the only constant difficulties I encountered at that time. I tend to write posts offline using Access to the weblog you have requested has been suspended. He said he was getting a similar error for his blog as well. Although TypePad support said it was a temporary error, this type of thing is definitely not good at all. Anyone seeing that message on a business blog would likely be wondering about you and what's going on. Using TypePad is worse every day from mid afternoon (my time) onwards. I'm in Amsterdam so that's 6 hours ahead of the US east coast. That slowdown clearly coincides with when everyone over there gets up in the morning and starts blogging. I like the TypePad service very much. I've been a subscriber since July 2004 and I'm paid up through to August 2006. Even though I will soon be re-locating NevOn to a WordPress, although I still haven't fully made up my mind yet - I will still keep this TypePad account open. When I speak to companies about corporate blogging, TypePad always enters the conversation. It's a service I often suggest to people to use in their experimenting stages, or even use the service for their actual business blog. Yet based on my own experiences since mid year, I'm beginning to worry about saying that now. Is TypePad really suitable for business blogging? is a question Debbie Weil is asking a similar question. And I see today that Reader Comments... Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: