Well as you can see things are back to ‘normal’ now. I still haven’t received any communication from Dreamhost, which makes me more than a little angry. Maybe it is time to start looking into Textdrive and Media Temple.
It seems that my host Dreamhost has decided to take a nap. Most of the sites I host there, as well as the sites of some of my peers (Stan, Khaled and Clint) are now back online and functioning, but the one site that I need to work is still out of commision.
Stroll on over and visit Usayd
March 1, 2007
heh wierd i was thinking of switching to Dreamhost, im stuck for another year with netfirms now…
Stroll on over and visit clint
March 1, 2007
yeah that was a drag, I had sent out info to a headhunter yesterday, and have no idea how many ppl were trying to view my site, God willing they are all looking today :)
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
Yes after I wrote this entry, I finally was able to get to Dreamhost’s blog and find out that they indeed had been affected by that brownout.
The point is that I shouldn’t have to load their blog to find out, I should have had an email with an apology for the hours of downtime I experienced in my inbox the moment power was restored.
Stroll on over and visit Matt
March 1, 2007
This is why I keep my servers in Texas. :)
Stroll on over and visit Trevor
March 1, 2007
I’ve been looking at the new VC deal over at Textdrive, too… I mean, I know this wasn’t Dreamhost’s fault (although they should have had those backup power generators working!), but this isn’t the first problem I’ve had with them lately.
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
Yeah I am noticing the same thing, I am assuming it is just leftover from the brownout. It is actually pretty difficult to pick yourself back up after that kind of event. It seems that they also lost some hardware during the outage. I would give them 2 -3 days to get back up to snuff.
If we are still seeing these problems on Monday, then it might be time to think about moving.
Stroll on over and visit khaled
March 1, 2007
And here I thought it was my ISP going on the blink, since I couldn’t access your sites either. I also think that they should have sent us an email at least, they haven’t even updated their announcement section in the control panel, which is a bit weird.
Also I don’t really get what happened to their generators. I design these systems for a living, so whatever consultant monkey designed it, and cowboy contractor who built it have go to really rethink their design, if 4 generators don’t go online something really stupid has happened.
On a completely unrelated topic, Clint, fantastic work on all the Tricky stuff, I LOVE Tricky, how the hell did you land that gig (apart from the talent bit of course).
Stroll on over and visit Michael Heilemann
March 1, 2007
BB had 5 hours of downtime. But (mt) mailed me and everyone else to let us know what had gone on.
Stroll on over and visit Jeff Smith
March 1, 2007
I’m a little irritated with DH as well. A new personal site that I’m working on is hosted there, and when I finally got some time to work on it yesterday afternoon I couldn’t access it. I realize that hosting is not an easy job, but a courtesy email when everything is back up and running with a little explanation would have been nice.
Stroll on over and visit actionBERG
March 1, 2007
Have you noticed any of your sites on Dreamhost running a lot slower? All of my Dreamhost sites seem to take forever to load, especially when in the Admin section of Wordpress. Quite annoying.
Stroll on over and visit Ara Pehlivanian
March 1, 2007
That really sucks. Do they at least have a 0 downtime policy? Can you get some money for your troubles?
Stroll on over and visit Phil
March 1, 2007
Are you a current or ex disgruntled Dreamhost user? There’s some people getting together to create an anti-Dreamhost website to warn others of their terrible service. Contact me if you wish to share your horror stories.