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    "title": "TypePad: Blog Monster devours posts, CEO devours ego",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/10/07/typepad-blog-monster-devours-posts-ceo-devours-ego/",
    "datePublished": "2005-10-07",
    "dateModified": "2022-05-03",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "The Blog Herald reports on how TypePad suffered a catastrophic drive failure this week that lead to some lost content. Steve Rubel was one of those affected, and he got…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# TypePad: Blog Monster devours posts, CEO devours ego

The Blog Herald [reports](http://blogherald.com/2005/10/06/typepad-problems-eat-content-sixapart-offers-6-month-free-hosting/) on how TypePad suffered a catastrophic drive failure this week that lead to some lost content.

Steve Rubel was one of those affected, and he got a very [appropriate response](https://web.archive.org/web/20051210131010/http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/10/typepad_loses_s.html) from the CEO of TypePad to explain the situation.

![image](https://performancezen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/typepad-3day-scatter.png)

![image](https://performancezen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/typepad-3day-avail.png)

[GrabPERF](http://www.grabperf.org/) caught the outage at about 21:00 EDT on October 4, 2005. Not a long one, but obviously long enough.