Blog.com will be offline early next wednesday. We will stop the systems at 00:00 UTC. The downtime should last fifteen minutes.
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will be distributing database loads, working on the path that leads to never needing to stop the system for database operations.
If, by chance, you get caught editing a [...]

Blog.com will go offline for a system upgrade next Sunday (August, 2). We will bring the systems offline at 23h00 UTC (Universal Time Coordinates) and expect to be offline for up to five hours. For reference, 23h00 UTC is:

16h00 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
19h00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
00h00 CEST (Western Europe Summer Time)
01h00 CEST (Central Europe [...]

We are tying up the last loose ends in the move to wordpress. If your blog is still living in the previous platform, expect it to be automatically migrated during the next couple of weeks. No intervention is needed by the blog owner. We will move all the data to the new infrastructure and convert [...]

The new blog.com homepage is going live today! As the DNS updates, during the next few hours you’ll find the new look of blog.com. This is the first step in a slew of evolutions scheduled for the near future. We’ll keep you posted through our blog.

In case you haven’t noticed yet, we are moving at full blast to wordpress-mu. Ever since WP 2.7 feature list appeared on our radar, we were pondering the possibility of moving. We took the plunge, and are working hard moving tracks on a heavy train. Switching platforms is no easy task, and works should take [...]

Blog.com will be upgrading database servers, tomorrow starting at 07h00UTC (that’s 02h00EST, 14h00 in Beijing). The upgrade process will need to be executed offline, so the service will be unavailable during the process which lasts about two hours.

Our apologies in advance for the downtime. We promise to be brief.