Comments on: Wow!!! What Is Going On With EduBlogs.org? Is It Broken?

By: Carol Broos

Carol Broos — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:51:12 +0000

I have had it with edublogs. It has been down more than up. I spent the day changing my webhost and creating a new blog. Here is my new site http://www.beatechie.com/ I will be email you this as well, so you can change my blog on ME blog. It was a good thing. I learned a lot through the entire process and I love my new web host- bluehost. Learning something new is great. However, it is much like losing your wallet. I have to remember all the places I put my blog link on and change it. Oh well, updating technology never ends…

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:02:02 +0000

Looks like its back… Now would be a good time to figure out the backup features!

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:13:52 +0000

Michelle,

You would have to install a copy of a windows based Apache (I use xampp lite). Then you could install a local copy of WordPress and you could function on a desktop. I believe EduBlogs is wordpress based. This could be a little complex for the average end-user. In theory you could then export and import into edublogs.

The easier thing to do would be to have your kids get a wordpress.com site and simply export from their and import into your edublogs site when it comes back up.

You can find the import/export functions under the MANAGE tab in Wordpress. Please let me know if you find this helpful.

Also Evan has a killer wordpress MU site (look above) if your music based, I’m sure he would help out.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:17:16 +0000

I use edublogs for teaching web design. Does anyone know if it is possible to use a local (desktop) copy of WordPress for students to save work to while edublogs is down? Then upload when site is up again? Thanks

By: Evan T

Evan T — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:39:15 +0000

Hi Joe,

Hope things work out for everyone hosting at edublogs. Let your readers know that if they continue to have trouble with their blogs we can host them for free over at musiced.net

We’re running wordpress MU as well on our server so it would be familiar since I believe edublogs uses it as well.

Hope things work out for the best though! - Evan T.

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:01:25 +0000

Saw it for a little bit tonight… then it was back down.. There is a growing concern over the lack of feedback of what’s up with the site… Edublogs.org has almost 250,000 users. Hope it gets worked out soon as a number of the ME Bloggers are edublog folks.

By: Eugene Cantera

Eugene Cantera — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:39:08 +0000

Whew - I have been out of touch for a day or two but thankfully blogspot seems to be working fine. Hang in there all you edu-bloggers, hopefully everyone will be up and running soon. Ain’t technology grand?

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:46:23 +0000

I tend to blow through my email in a haze so it’s possible they communicated ahead of time and I missed it. Still, the continued absence of my blog is becoming frustrating. I actually have some things to blog about!!!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:21:24 +0000

I thought they originally said the site would be down for maintenance over the weekend. I could see the home page and my site for awhile yesterday, but I could not see the dashboard nor post or edit.

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:55:53 +0000

I found this while blog searching google at blogsearch.google.com but I can’t pull up the rest because it came from a site on edublogs… It looks as though they new the maintenance was coming, but I think they ran into troubles…

“Edublogs just changed the time this blog, and all 200000 other Edublogs, will be off-line for a few hours. Now, they’ll be upgrading tomorrow morning (Saturday). Originally, it was going to be tonight (Friday). As I mentioned earlier, …”

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:48:51 +0000

My guess is they were upgrading the hardware and had a huge issue with the reload of the sites, etc… It’s odd that you all haven’t heard anything… I did see the edublogs home page for a brief couple of minutes today then it was gone again…

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:06:13 +0000

This is the only time there’s ever been more than brief, scheduled maintenance as far as I know. I haven’t heard a thing about it from the site.

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:14:12 +0000

Martha and/all affected…

Does this happen a lot? Did they give you any idea as to when it would be over via email or contact you all in some other way???

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:41:11 +0000

Yeah, all this up down up down really is making me wish I was self-hosting my professional blog. Very frustrating!