downtimes for Helium and blogger.com

I now see a pattern in the two sites I hang out most times. Helium experiences down times in the evening (our time here) while blogger.com crashes in the morning (our time). This had been going on for three nights with Helium and about two weeks with blogger.

Well, that's supposed to be good news for these two sites because it only means they are having more users and that they need to upgrade their systems to accommodate their growing number of members.

If this continues however, especially with blogger.com which hosts all my blogs, this can be very bad as the inability to publish and the errors that come out will mislead the visitors and readers and thus drive them away.

Efforts to increase traffic will be useless as the whole thing becomes erratic. Like now for instance is a good time because the system is working and publication is possible. However this is going to reverse tomorrow morning. Yes, this has happened for weeks now that updates done tonight get published tonight but in the morrow, it's gone or no longer there on the page. It comes back in the evening and disappears again the following day. I mean, isn't this really exasperating?

We hope of course that there will finally be a real fix to this problem. As it is, it dampens the spirit.