La limite de l’utilisation d’un service tiers

Bon cela n’est pas si grave mais cela a le mérite de pointer le risque de l’utilisation d’un service tiers comme flickr, feedburner, ou bien comme ici gravatar :

Parce quand c’est down c’est vraiment down ;) (hier soir)

A recent 50% increase in gravatar requests has pushed the current server to the limits, and response times have slowed accordingly. I have disabled signup and login while I migrate the database to the Gravatar 2.0 schema and setup the new and improved gravatar servers. Once the new servers are in place, you should see gravatars being served with unprecedented speed! After the serving issue is solved, I will deploy the Gravatar 2.0 website, full of usability improvements and new features.

En attendant qu’ils aient fini de régler leurs problèmes les gravatars sont désactivés sur ce blog.