Downtimes are amongst the worst things that could happen to us bloggers. It disrupts our traffic, threatens to wipe out our content or databases, decrease our income stream, the lost in productivity and on top of it all, the aggravation and frustration it causes. I could stand being unable to blog or visit my site because my connection is lost or there is a power blockout. These things are quite tolerable and acceptable becuase we understand it. We know its nature, its causes and the solutions to it, even though we end-users are not the ones who really implement the fixes and remedies.
With server downtimes, it’s a lot different. Few amongst us bloggers and webmasters are not that adept and well-versed with the inner workings of our sites, the sort-of ‘under the hood’ stuff that powers our blogs. When servers really suffer downtimes, we are left wondering what could’ve caused it and if there’s something we clients could do about it, so as to help the tech support group instead of blaming them for what appears to be a lousy webhosting service. (Mind you though, for there are some really crappy hosting services out there.) After all, we bloggers and webmasters are the ones who really use the servers everytime we moderate comments, install a new plugin, test a new theme and so on. Looking at it this way, we do have a hand in keeping the servers healthy and running smoothly.
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