This has not been the case with sites for my clients who use other server companies, several of which have had to move companies because of restricted bandwidth, excessive downtime combined with poor customer service and high costs. One client wondered why his dedicated server was slow, the reason was his server company had changed his link from an unregulated 10 Mb/s connection to a throttled 5 Mb connection without warning! When challenged they just referred him to a new clause they had added in an obscure AUP saying they could! Not exactly the best way to treat a long-standing customer!

All server companies have downtime, it is a fact of life. What makes a company’s reputation for me is how they act when downtime occurs and how they try and prevent it occuring again. Dreamhost report things warts and all and I appreciate the status.dreamhost.com system because it tells me quickly if there is a problem, unlike my domestic ISP who reports nothing ever being wrong unless it is a company wide outage!

For me Dreamhost get it right on far more occasions than they get it wrong and for my $38 a month for hosting many sites I am grateful for their professionalism and honesty in reporting causes of faults, even when, rarely, it imay be their own goof that has caused it.

I, for one, will not be changing from Dreamhost in the foreseeable future.

Keep up the good work boys.

DH staff has explained (somewhere) that this status blog is intentionally hosted at another provider to ensure ability to communicate to us in event of catastrophic downtime. Or something to that effect. Not to detract from your joke. hope this helps.

http://www.accessdataservices.com/zip/index.php

I bet if they traced the IPs of those people it’d turn out to be a compeditor

but anyways
theres still a little slowness but with all the upgrades it’ll take a few days for everything to catch back up with the backlog that they’ve acumulated