Sometime in the last couple of minutes, The Freak Show came back online

Not only was The Freak Show down, all of Blogger was down for almost an hour. The reason? According to Blogger Status, it was an unexpected outage.

I could understand if it were just one server containing a handful of blogs. That happens. But not the whole service.

I could also understand if it were being run by my local multimedia provider. After all, they are the idiots who take several months to fix things such as their PPV servers. Because they can't keep spare parts on hand, order them from Tiger Direct or, I don't know, go to Best Buy and get the parts. But this is Google! There is a reason why the phrase "Google It" has become part of our modern lexicon.

Some sites I have found while trying to figure out what is going on had some people blasting others for complaining about how a free service is down. I don't think it is so much that it is down, but more because this is Google. they should be able to avoid stuff like this. like I said, the occasional server problem is one thing, but to have all the servers go down is unacceptable. Google, get some backups that you can hook up when needed or something. You are one of the biggest companies out there. There is no excuse for something like this to happen.