Happy New Year!

If you’re into that kind of thing.

We ended up getting 66 donations for a total of $5878.47 which we matched and then donated to Union Rescue Mission who in turn got it doubled for a grand total of $23,513.88!

Their site says that’s enough to feed 14,337.7317 people!

Or, in l33t-speak, LAEET TEIT people!

Great Job!

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51 Responses to “Happy New Year!”

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  1. 1
    Anonymous Says:

    Well that’s pretty cool except for the guy who gets served only the .7317 of a meal and will feel sorta discriminated :)
    Seriously, great job!

  2. 2
    Extreme BitTorrent Says:

    my server is down! happy new year to everyone!

  3. 3
    Sir Pavlow Says:

    Happy new year all

  4. 4
    Extreme BitTorrent Says:

    my site came back up for a brief period. and now it’s down again…. loooks like it’s REALLY gonna be a fun year with DH

  5. 5
    Viking Says:

    @Extreme BitTorrent: your site seems very much alive to me. It’s even pinging back faster than my sites (39ms versus 77ms) so it may be, perhaps, something on your end of the connection?

  6. 6
    Pete Says:

    the web panel is down

  7. 7
    Andy Says:

    ^yup.

    Came back up for a minute, but is now hanging then dropping.

  8. 8
    Andy Says:

    ^yup.

    Came back up for a minute, but now I just can’t get in to Manage Domains. It just hangs…

  9. 9
    David Says:

    It’s not even the 2nd full day of the new year and I can’t access my domain management tools. I rarely do admin work but since I switched to “dream” host it has been a nightmare - I keep having problems using the web panel that dream host loves to brag about. I thought my last hosting company sucked but the only time I wasn’t able to log onto their control panel was when the entire northeast had a power black out!! Thank goodness my company didn’t take my advice and switch to dream host or I’d look like an idiot. Now I have to deal with finding another host and transferring my domain again because I’m sick of all these server time-outs when I’m trying to get work done. Happy New Year? Not so far.

  10. 10
    David Says:

    It’s not even the 2nd full day of the new year and I can’t access my domain management tools. I rarely do admin work but since I switched to “dream” host it has been a nightmare - I keep having time-out problems using the web panel that dream host loves to brag about - and I can’t submit support ticket because it times out, too!!

    I thought my last hosting company sucked but the only time I wasn’t able to log onto their control panel was when the entire northeast had a power black out!! Thank goodness my employer did NOT take my advice and switch to dream host or I’d look like an idiot right now. Now I have to deal with finding another host and transferring my domain again because I’m sick of all these server time-outs when I’m trying to get work done. Happy New Year? Not so far thanks to dream host!

  11. 11
    David Says:

    Sorry about the double posts… but you guessed it: I got a server not responding error on the first post! (BTW, I have excellent ISP service right now - as a former ISP tech I know it’s not my side with the problems).

  12. 12
    Kwazimodo Says:

    That’s really messed up, except this is a post about the donations.

    Happy new year.

  13. 13
    rlparker Says:

    re. David - “I have excellent ISP service right now - as a former ISP tech I know it’s not my side with the problems.”

    I can’t speak for what was going on for *you* at 11:20PM, but the panel was responding fine for me at that time (as it is at present).

    Fomer ISP techs should know that there are a *lot* of reasons you could be experiencing connectivity issues that may not be related to DreamHost *or* to your “excellent ISP service”. ;-)

  14. 14
    dupola Says:

    Happy New Year.

  15. 15
    Marcel K. Says:

    Happy New Year y’all. And remember: negative feedback will hardly ever be a stimulus.

  16. 16
    why Says:

    @david - Note that dreamhoststatus.com isn’t even hosted at Dreamhost so your posting problem has nothing to do with their hardware/configuration/networking.

  17. 17
    Extreme BitTorrent Says:

    This is funny. For the last 3/4 hours, when I try to browse to my site, I go to a completely different website…. in my case, my domain automatically redirects to this scammy site: http://www.getgoogleadsfree.com/indxtmsup.html
    And this has been happening intermittently, not to mention the speed of the site is also sluggish.
    This is outrageous. Although I wouldn’t be complaining had it been the other way around… that scam site has >200000 uniques per month… lol!

  18. 18
    cyberfizzle Says:

    Happy New Year DH!

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  19. 19
    cyberfizzle Says:

    Ow! It got all messed up!

  20. 20
    hue Says:

    That’s almost what http://www.johnchow.com made this month.

  21. 21
    Pete Says:

    Happy New Year! Glad to hear DH was able to donate so much to a good cause.

  22. 22
    Sphere of Hip-Hop Says:

    Good grief. Good thing this wasn’t a SUPPORT related topic. Sheesh.

    Thanks to everyone who donated to such a worthy cause.

  23. 23
    Pete Says:

    What’s “LAEET TEIT” again?

  24. 24
    why Says:

    it’s 14,337.7317

    Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet for an explanation.

  25. 25
    Neil Says:

    I can’t file support tickets in the web panel. After I pick a section, it starts to scan, and then puts me back at the first page. And since that’s the only point of contact…well… =\

  26. 26
    why Says:

    Use the contact page on www.dreamhost.com if you have issues with the panel. It won’t open a ticket, but it will get seeen.

    You may also want to try a different browser to ensure that it’s not something else causing the problem.

  27. 27
    Mike Says:

    Hmm, looks like dreamhoststatus.com IS hosted by DH?

    http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=dreamhoststatus&tld=com

  28. 28
    Noclegi Says:

    Congratulations! Happy New Year to you. Much appreciated :)

  29. 29
    whois101 Says:

    Happy New Year and congrats with the donations, but…..

    all subdomains - main entry points - of our site are down for 14 hours now, and the database access is messed up, too now. All due to a routing issue at DreamHost. And support hasn’t communicated for 10 hours, after telling me that they are working on it.

    I wonder when they start donating to us for all the missed business?

    (and before the anti-whiners start whining…. we opened this account when DreamHost still provided business-strength solutions)

  30. 30
    Julian Says:

    Our site is down too… no notification, nothing…

  31. 31
    why Says:

    @whoi101 - That was about the time they started developing Duke Nukem Forever, right?

    @Julian - Your site is working but like the outage - “no notification, nothing”

    @mike - Registration isn’t hosting. (grin) If you looked at where the DNS entries point, you’d find the IP is hosted by another company, just like ns2.dreamhost.com

  32. 32
    Daniel Says:

    Down….. Hard. Everything. Down.

  33. 33
    Nomad Says:

    I see I’m not the only one having problems. I can access my panel and dashboard but when I try to access my site, I get the 500 Internal Server Error: “The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.”
    It was working fine yesterday and this morning and I’ve made no changes…

    Nice.

  34. 34
    PalePhoenix Says:

    Ditto. Also down. FTP worked, momentarily. Email still working, which is also odd. Browsers just keep seeking with no timeout or 500 error. Obviously, no notification here, or we wouldn’t all be kvetching. This is the 2nd occurrence since the New Year. Bot logs from the last time showed a 45-60 minute gap, so maybe this will resolve itself in that time, too.

  35. 35
    PalePhoenix Says:

    “…so maybe this will resolve itself in that time, too.” Yep. Still put in a ticket tho.

    Otherwise, Happy New Year to everyone else.

  36. 36
    Craig Says:

    Dreamhost Status is hosted at ServePath… http://www.servepath.com

  37. 37
    why Says:

    Pale/Nomad - know that the mail service is actually run from another set of machines, not actually on the shared server that serves HTTP and FTP. Both your sites are working this morning.

  38. 38
    zylox Says:

    @PalePhoenix & Nomad: Sometimes the Apache (webserver) process crashes for certain domains, this results in some domains on the same server to work and others sites not to load, sometimes even subdomains will work while you main domain is down. These kinds of issues are have never been reported here (to my knowledge) and are mostly solved relatively quickly.

  39. 39
    Daniel Says:

    Down once again. Everything… Down.

  40. 40
    Big Click Says:

    Me too…

  41. 41
    dupola Says:

    site slow………..

  42. 42
    dupola Says:

    site down.

  43. 43
    dupola Says:

    enable access MySQL datebase…

  44. 44
    dupola Says:

    FTP slow……

  45. 45
    Herb Urban Says:

    my site is down .. any updates on the servers?

  46. 46
    anonymous Says:

    MySQL down and site slow/not responding

  47. 47
    jip Says:

    Happy New Year a few days late :)

  48. 48
    8rk.Org Says:

    ftp slow

  49. 49
    Alex Says:

    Heck, my mate was having trouble with his DH account and I thought he must be a minority. I really feel for you guys as that’s terrible :(

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    Free Classifieds Says:

    Happy new year a few days late. And DH have to improve their customer service for 2008.

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