WordPress.com Goes Down, Takes Millions of Blogs With It

WordPress.com and the millions of blogs hosted by it have gone down for currently unknown reasons. Not only are blogs hosted on WordPress.com down, but WordPress VIP blogs are out of commission as well.

All it currently says on WordPress-hosted blogs is the following:

“WordPress.com will be back in a minute!”

Millions of blogs, including ones like GigaOm, are down for the count. WordPress.com also experienced extended downtime back in February.

UPDATE: WordPress has responded by saying that all hands are on deck to restore service and suggesting that we check out its Twitter account (@Wordpressdotcom) for updates.

Here is what Wordpress tweeted moments ago:

“We are working on restoring WordPress.com as quickly as possible.”

UPDATE 2: From @Wordpressdotcom: “We’ve isolated the issue on WordPress.com, and we are working on a fix.”

UPDATE 3: WordPress.com blogs are back up. Founder/CEO Matt Mullenweg tweeted this: “The vast majority of blogs are back up, bringing up the rest over the next few minutes after we verify them.”

In all, the downtime was around an hour.

UPDATE 4: WordPress.com and most of its blogs have gone back down, less than an hour after they were brought back online.