DreamHost
August 1, 2006
Anyone want to know what’s been going on with DreamHost?
Read this: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/08/01/anatomy-of-an-ongoing-disaster/
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Anyone want to know what’s been going on with DreamHost?
Read this: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/08/01/anatomy-of-an-ongoing-disaster/
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Yeah, like I said, the last few weeks has been exceptionally bad for their uptime.
After reading that and with things having been nicely stable and reliable for the last couple days, I’m going to ride it out. I think.
Located in the same building as MySpace, eh. I’d hate to be the owners of the building. It is not good to piss off Rupert Murdoch. That at least explains the sucking.
Give Dreamhost credit: they at least are disclosing what’s going on. (unless you’re really cynical, in which case give them credit for a really good cover story). Too many other places would just say “we are experiencing problems” and not tell you anything at all about what sort of problems and why. I’d take “a backhoe operator dug up the backbone” anyday over “network outage”. And they admitted “whoops, we screwed up” on their filer configuration.
We’re also going to be buying our own UPSes, since we have learned we can’t trust our data center OR our building to do it.
I’m paranoid enough that I would have had my own in there from the start just because I’m of the “never assume” school. Hell, if I was Dreamhost, after getting all this stuff sorted out and my very own UPSes installed, I’d pull a simulated power loss just to make sure all the bases were covered and the UPSes worked and how long they were good for just to make sure they didn’t decide to drop dead on first use.
Elsewhere it’s noted:
Honestly, though, after reading all that, if I was doing serious hosting for other people at Dreamhost, I’d consider tossing them, because it is notable that the building owner isn’t doing their job and won’t unless the tenants start smacking heads.
Fortunately most of my hosting isn’t serious. None of it is business related, even though personal email is pretty important.
Having read through that whole post last night, I’m going to stick with them for a while. They’ve been pretty good for the last few days, and with their track record of being good for others whom I know, I feel it’s safe to assume that they’ll be good, provided things stay up.
There’s also this:
http://www.dreamhost-sucks.com/
My problem with that site is its lack of depth. The DreamHost blog article I linked to has more content than all of the Dreamhost Sucks site. :\