The Register on why LJ was down

The Register: Mystery data centre snag floors LiveJournal
Eyes crossed out, tongue protruding
By John Leyden • Get more from this author
Posted in Networks, 26th July 2011 09:05 GMT

Community and blogging site LiveJournal is continuing to suffer a prolonged outage.

The service has been down since Monday due to unspecified data centre problems. Russian media firm SUP bought LiveJournal from original developers Six Apart back in 2007 before moving product development and design functions to Russia.

LiveJournal was hit by a DDoS attack earlier this year but a second attack does not appear to be the cause of this week's extended outage. ®

In other words, The Register doesn't have a clue. At least they admit it.

BTW, LJ is back up.

UPDATE: But it's not as up as one might think: Failed to crosspost entry to darksumomo@LiveJournal: Failed to connect to http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc.