Typepad Outage

Typepad had a pretty big outage on Friday late afternoon. They were down until Saturday and even then some photo files were not restored until Sunday. That tells me that Typepad does not have a fully redundant hot failover system in place. They have the data backed up but it requires a lot of manual processes to failover and restore full functionality.  This is pretty typical of a lot of Internet companies. They skimp on complete redundancy and just keep their fingers crossed hoping that they do not suffer a catestrophic systems failure. I am sure that Typepad's management and technical people will be huddled in a meeting room on Monday morning with management demanding to know how this happened and the tech team saying they have been trying to escalate this for months.  Now they will have to buck up and pay to have their systems upgraded after severly damaging their brand and pissing off their customers. Bet they wish they had not been so cheap and had paid for real redundancy earlier, it would have saved them a lot of money.