April 18, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Blog network Weblogs Inc. (weblogs.com) is seeking a new hosting provider after a series of outages in recent weeks, including one that occurred last Thursday at its flagship network Engadget, according to a report by research firm Netcraft (netcraft.com).
A slew of blogging sites – millions of which continue to host with free services such as Google’s BlogSpot and Six Apart’s LiveJournal – have been experiencing significant hosting problems, says Netcraft.
While the sites on BlogSpot and LiveJournal are largely personal blogs, Weblogs Inc. is a business that depends on advertising revenue. The network’s 75 niche-oriented blogs generate more than $1,000 a day in revenue from Google’s AdSense program alone, which comes to a standstill when a site is offline and can’t display ads.
“We’ve lost a couple of thousand dollars in advertising already thanks to the [hosting] problems,” Calcanis wrote in its March 28th blog post titled Yes, We Suck. “It is making me crazy.”
Weblogs Inc. is hosted at New York-based provider Logic Works/Digital Telemedia, which serves about 2,700 hostnames. Many of the most popular weblogs are hosted by providers of modest size.
