Blogline Failure

From an earlier post...(Simple tools (small pieces) loosely joined)
"My other concern is redundancy. I spend my time telling students they need to reduce the redundancy in their databases but then I use various systems to hold my on-line content. This obviously has its advantages as far as I am not reliant on any one system for my online experience, (i.e. del.ico.us is currently down) but is this really efficient?"

One of the tools that I have begun using is bloglines (thanks Bill). I began using this because I was away in Adelaide and didn't have access to my aggregator. I liked the idea of the "network tools" philosophy but was a little concerned about its efficiency.

As I am now able to sit down and make use of my blog and other tools such as Flickr, even though bloglines is down I notice some advantages of using various online tools. I do also have the opportunity to make use of RSSOwl again, although I haven't been keeping it up to date :-(.

However I begin to worry about the reliability of such tools and am concerned about the consequences of taking the plunge and making use of these in a school environment.

Slashdot mentioned earlier about blogs outgrowing their server space. Will these outages simply increase as more people use the services?

Curious to get others feelings about this issue.