DreamHost.com Messing wit’ My Blog Party

DreamHost is the best of all hosting providers that drafted against my credit accounts. They seem to have a genuine sense of humor that is matched by the honor it takes to announce mistakes quickly:

Due to a database mixup causing some incorrect firewall rules to be put in place, some of you may have noticed some problems connecting to your web sites, ftp, or shell services. Total downtime varied depending on which machine you’re on, but shouldn’t have exceeded 30 minutes and wouldn’t have affected all parts of the internet.

We’re very sorry about this, but hopefully the firewall changes we put in place should make our DreamHost experience more pleasant in the future.

Happy DreamHost Fiery-Walled Team!

The last time DreamHost pissed me off was way, way back in 2003 (?) when they had an outage so big kintespace.com lost over 3000 hits minimum (based on the hits of previous months). It took months more to recover. I sense that when ‘ethnic’ Web sites go down there is a very merciless tendency of members of the same ethnic group never, ever to visit that site again… Such indignation! But the DreamHost boys and girls promised never, ever to do that again and, so far, they are keeping their word.

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