DreamHost.com Suffering from the Heat Wave
Much of Western civilization is powered by electricity, which in turn comes from the great kingdoms of Moloch under the earth—our vast, cavernous stores of fossil fuels. Legends from the sages in Texas say that this fuel is endless and this is why we need to look underground, in the caveman world, for our energy resources.
Completing the previous smart-ass paragraph means that you are able to see data on one of the DreamHost.com servers hosting the database supporting this Blog. However, in “What a week!” the DreamHost.com action figures write with a firm, Kung Fu grip:
Our string of bad luck is not over yet. After the file server crash last weekend and the subsequent internal network issues that we have been cleaning up all week, this evening brought us a Los Angeles area power outage that took down our data center (again, we know…). This time the generators worked fortunately, but the UPS system did not.
It may appear that the tone in this post might encourage the blokes at DreamHost.com to be more secretive with the slick Byzantine mosaic poker faces that makes poor people think rich people are demigods. On the contrary, DreamHost.com does not try to play me for an idiot and eventually some “mainstream” news source will break the big story about power crises in the IT industry. There may be a cute headline like, “How’s the weather? It’s Not Just IT Small Talk: Power Crises in the IT Industry.”