I have to apologise for the outages of this blog. I wasn't around for the last couple of days, but I now there were big problems at wordpress.

I am hosted at wordpress.com, and I will continue with them. I am so impressed with Matt and the team, and even though there have been downtimes recently I remain satisfied with them and have confidence in them. They are small but significant and growing in the blogging community.

As a blogger the system one uses is important, and though I use MovableType on my own ISP for the other blogs, I really like the flexibility, creativity, and regular upgrades I see from WordPress, so this blog will stay at bankwatch.wordpress.com

WordPress.com » We’re Working On It!

We had originally planned for this new hardware to come online more than a month ago, which would have prevented the errors we've all been experiencing, but it has taken longer than expected. This is my fault and I'm sorry for not getting things moving sooner.By creating this first mirror in Dallas, we're trying to eliminate as many things that could fail as possible, so in theory if California fell into the ocean we could still keep the site running without any problems and slowdowns.

We're in the very final stages of bringing the new systems online, just waiting the last few bits of configuration to come online. As we're more than doubling the servers we're using, it should address all performance issues and help us prevent any for a long time to come. This means we can get back to doing things we love, like adding cool new features and themes for you. Thanks for your patience, we'll have things back to normal as soon as possible.