Comments on: Power strip maintenance - Date moved! http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/ Information about DreamHost Services Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:40:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mike http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28693 mike Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:01:12 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28693 all my sites on burton are down. they were down last night and this morning they were still down. hmm all my sites on burton are down. they were down last night and this morning they were still down. hmm

]]> By: Granville http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28679 Granville Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:09:13 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28679 my sites our down. It had nothing to do with this issue, but I wanted to put it in here to just because I wanted to join the group and whine like the rest of you about a problem that had nothing to do about the issue this post had to do about it. Wow I hope they get it fixed since I whined about it in here instead of turning in a support request in the panel. my sites our down. It had nothing to do with this issue, but I wanted to put it in here to just because I wanted to join the group and whine like the rest of you about a problem that had nothing to do about the issue this post had to do about it. Wow I hope they get it fixed since I whined about it in here instead of turning in a support request in the panel.

]]> By: Keithy http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28665 Keithy Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:38:08 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28665 I don't suppose any of the whingers have thought that constantly pinging, resfreshing or hosttracking their website might be contributing to outages caused by the increased load these activities will put on the DH infrastructure. Someone mentioned it before and I agree it's tantamount to running a DoS attack. If thousands of people are pinging, tracking and refreshing willy-nilly because they think their sites might be down for 20 minutes then it's affecting us all and it gets right up my nose! If you relaxed a little and didn't get so obsessive (remember the word "trust"?) then maybe your sites would still be up. Maybe they wouldn't, but your blood pressure and general mental well being would be much better. Plus you wouldn't be paying your DSL provider all that money for the extra bandwidth you're using up checking your site every 15 seconds! :-) Is there anyone on shared hosting who actually makes a living (or thier millions) out of their website? Maybe you should, as suggested before, get a dedicated server. They're going through a bad patch. Looks like they are working hard to fix the problems. If you know better, maybe you should go along and offer to help them out. Otherwise, give 'em a break! I don’t suppose any of the whingers have thought that constantly pinging, resfreshing or hosttracking their website might be contributing to outages caused by the increased load these activities will put on the DH infrastructure. Someone mentioned it before and I agree it’s tantamount to running a DoS attack.

If thousands of people are pinging, tracking and refreshing willy-nilly because they think their sites might be down for 20 minutes then it’s affecting us all and it gets right up my nose! If you relaxed a little and didn’t get so obsessive (remember the word “trust”?) then maybe your sites would still be up. Maybe they wouldn’t, but your blood pressure and general mental well being would be much better. Plus you wouldn’t be paying your DSL provider all that money for the extra bandwidth you’re using up checking your site every 15 seconds! :-)

Is there anyone on shared hosting who actually makes a living (or thier millions) out of their website? Maybe you should, as suggested before, get a dedicated server.

They’re going through a bad patch. Looks like they are working hard to fix the problems. If you know better, maybe you should go along and offer to help them out. Otherwise, give ‘em a break!

]]> By: Curtis Bayne http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28628 Curtis Bayne Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:55:37 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28628 Everyone - whinge more! Seriously, you pay like $100 a YEAR for web hosting, and then complain when your businesses website is down? If your website is that important to you, then you should probably be thinking about spending ~$300, 400 a month on a managed service. Call me a snob, but I think the Dreamhost guys do an excellent job given their level of overselling. Ironically - it never seems to be the overselling that causes the issues! (It always seems to be the power...). Everyone - whinge more! Seriously, you pay like $100 a YEAR for web hosting, and then complain when your businesses website is down? If your website is that important to you, then you should probably be thinking about spending ~$300, 400 a month on a managed service.

Call me a snob, but I think the Dreamhost guys do an excellent job given their level of overselling. Ironically - it never seems to be the overselling that causes the issues! (It always seems to be the power…).

]]> By: Joe http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28621 Joe Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:39:25 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28621 and Burbank is back! and Burbank is back!

]]> By: Goston http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28613 Goston Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:01:01 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28613 My DB down ... :( My DB down … :(

]]> By: zeroflux http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28612 zeroflux Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:00:01 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28612 Same here... my discussion forum is down: Can't connect to MySQL Server throughsocket... Same here… my discussion forum is down: Can’t connect to MySQL Server throughsocket…

]]> By: Joe http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28611 Joe Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:58:41 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28611 (just FYI) Burbank (database server) is still down, both my sites are accessible but can't connect to the database. (just FYI) Burbank (database server) is still down, both my sites are accessible but can’t connect to the database.

]]> By: Armen http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28610 Armen Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:57:46 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28610 I would love to know why only one of my three sites is not accessible right now. How does that even happen? I would love to know why only one of my three sites is not accessible right now. How does that even happen?

]]> By: zeroflux http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28609 zeroflux Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:56:24 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/09/power-strip-maintenance/#comment-28609 I'm going outside to have a smoke, in celebration :) I’m going outside to have a smoke, in celebration :)

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