{"id":8361,"date":"2006-08-03T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/dreamhost-again\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:42","slug":"dreamhost-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/dreamhost-again\/","title":{"rendered":"DreamHost&#8230; Again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m in a bit of a tough spot. I&#8217;m trying to figure out what to do about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\">DreamHost<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t heard anything back from my support ticket with them, so I&#8217;m pricing out options to get my server back in colocation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waveform.net\">Waveform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My current thought is to replace the likely-to-fail-soon 5x 120GB ATA-6 drive assembly (running software RAID1 and RAID 0+1 via GEOM) with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ware.com\/products\/serial_ata8000.asp\">3ware 8006-2LP<\/a> and a pair of fairly commodity (probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdc.com\">WD<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagate.com\">Seagate<\/a>) SATA drives.<\/p>\n<p>Total cost for this will be around US$300, plus resumption of US$50\/mo colocation payments.<\/p>\n<p>Gur. I don&#8217;t know what to do. I want to stick it out and see if DH gets better, but if I need to build an entire server and move things back to it, I need to get going soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m in a bit of a tough spot. I&#8217;m trying to figure out what to do about DreamHost. I haven&#8217;t heard anything back from my support ticket with them, so I&#8217;m pricing out options to get my server back in colocation with Waveform. My current thought is to replace the likely-to-fail-soon 5x 120GB ATA-6\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-finances","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13268,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}