As you may know, Feedburner was down yesterday for almost and hour because some routine maintenance went in a direction they hadn’t anticipated. That’s a nice way to say something messed up and they didn’t think it would 🙂
The CEO, Dick Costolo, had this to say:
The FeedBurner service was down and unreachable from about 6:07pm to 6:47pm central time on Tuesday November 29. We were doing simple planned maintenance on our multi-master db environment and during the planned maintenance, the db responded in an unexpected manner, and the standard operating procedure restarts did not correctly recover the system. System stability and investment in stability and performance are the highest priority here. We are debriefing the results of last night’s planned maintenance. Most importantly, NO data was lost, no data was corrupted, nothing outside of that 40 minute window was affected in any way.
(full disclosure) I use Feedburner for a few of my blogs that I occassionally put podcasts on, because Feedburner supports rich-media enclosures and Blogger doesn’t. Of course, that’s probably not necessary to disclose since you see it right there in my sidebar. 😉