Back in June I wrote about various add-ons for your weblog, including commenting (the function that allows weblog readers to add their comments to individual posts, like we have below). I featured Enetation, then a new commenting service run by 18 year-old Robert Taylor, because its ease of set-up and functionality impressed me. Taking my own advice, I even installed it on another weblog I run.

Things, alas, have not been as peachy as I - or, presumably, Robert - would have wanted. The Enetation service has had more than a few problems since that piece (perhaps because of the piece?), running into a few of the issues anyone who has attempted to set up a commenting service has experienced. That's why there aren't many externally hosted commenting services around.

The slow response times of Enetation's servers have dramatically slowed the loading of my pages, and now the whole thing is kaput while Robert re-codes, and buys new servers with more RAM. I suspect he's on a steep learning curve - he's certainly already learned the lingo of service provider understatement, admitting on the home page only to "some service issues in the last few days". Here's hoping he manages to get the service going again: Enetation Mark 1 was good while it worked.