Post Mortem

September 19, 2005 on 12:04 pm | In Foobars, Funnyish, Insider View, Updates by Josh Jones | 27 Comments

Our poor building workers!

Okay, this isn’t the REAL post-mortem.

But we thought we’d post a few sort of interesting tidbits from Monday:

Video immediately after being evacuated. (13.7MB avi)
(Just kidding around… please don’t be offended!)

Video of our servers without power. (1.2MB mov)

(Boring) Video of powering our servers back on! (417KB mov)

One particularly tasty voicemail. (53KB wav)

Memories!

Also, we just sent off a $30,000 check to the Red Cross today for Katrina! I think it’s sort of funny that DreamHost plus DreamHost Customers donated more than the entire country of Sri Lanka ($25,000 I heard)!

27 Responses to “Post Mortem”

  1. C Montoya Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 12:21 pm

    I love my website, but I wouldn’t want you all to commit suicide when it goes down.

  2. Pange Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 12:28 pm

    Wow, it’s hard to believe that dreamhost and its customers donated more than a country! Impressive!

  3. dml Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 1:24 pm

    The guy who left that voicemail needs to get a hobby or something. Criminy.

    As for me, I was blissfully on vacation, far from the Internet for the whole power outage. Woo! Good work on getting everything back in order. I’d never have known it happened if it weren’t on the blog.

  4. Adam Backstrom Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 1:36 pm

    Seppuku is clearly the answer. Your honor is at stake!

  5. Jeffrey Rinvelt Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 1:51 pm

    After watching the first video, that reminds where is our refund for the down time?

  6. matttail Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 3:28 pm

    Love the videos! You know, I had allways figured you guys were all older – like 40’s or somehting. As far as a refund goes, I think that our matched donations for red cross count. I’ll also admit that I kinda expect you guys to gt out of matchine donations for this much “we’ll make payements for our part over the next year…” but this is really great. What a wonderful service you guys provide.

  7. Yannick Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 8:19 pm

    I loved the first video. lol

    Keep up the awesome work!

  8. Jad Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 10:27 pm

    Gee, and I had always thought that you guys were younger – like around 7 or 8…

    /jad

  9. Jad Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 10:39 pm

    just kidding.. :)

    Really though, please don’t forget to post the video of the Garland building engineers staff facing the FIRING SQUAD! I bet those guys need kryptonite undies this week…

    /jad

  10. Chris Says:
    September 20th, 2005 at 9:15 am

    Recap:

    Down…… down down down
    Down…… down down down

    No blinking lights..

  11. Chris Says:
    September 20th, 2005 at 9:16 am

    Wow, that guy totally lost out on a day of blogging. You should be ashamed. Maybe we can all get together to chip in enough money to buy him a copy of the new NIN album so that he can go excercise his angst.

    :D

  12. Chris Says:
    September 20th, 2005 at 9:21 am

    BTW.. regarding age.. have you guys even read the newsletter? That showed age right there.. right around my age I suspected… 25 – 30ish.

    /would like to work for Dreamhost in SoCal…
    //Miss SoCal

  13. Dan Says:
    September 20th, 2005 at 3:10 pm

    No one noticed the downtime, except me. Took off from work, went home and cut the lawn.

  14. Chris Says:
    September 20th, 2005 at 5:43 pm

    Heh.. I noticed the downtime. Mail went to check our email accounts and it couldnt connect to the server. Each email account got a little “Warning” symbol next to it. I was like.. WTF? Then I noticed that I couldnt get to our printers website down in Riverside. I was like.. WTF? I had heard about the power outage but didnt think it would take down all of this. I was like “meh.. who cares… just use the backup email accounts”

  15. Brandi Says:
    September 20th, 2005 at 9:43 pm

    Oh, poor poor Voicemail Guy. When fine red-blooded American citizens can’t distribute their TeenMidgetFurries.com newsletter on time, the terrorists have won.

  16. riki Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 8:35 am

    wow you guys have got heeps of servers, I always though it was just the one for my website :)

  17. Jeff Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 9:23 am

    you guys are listed on http://www.validmyass.org/

  18. ann Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 9:51 am

    sorry to say this, but you know… Sri Lanka is a poor small country that just went through one of the worst Tsunami in history (in case we’ve all forgotten by now)… I don’t think it’s fair to compare what dreamhost customers can donate to the Katrina victims to what the govt. of Sri Lanka can donate…

  19. Daniel Says:
    September 21st, 2005 at 11:29 am

    I agree, Ann! We don’t want any of the impoverished tsunami victims reading this blog to become upset with Josh’s terribly, terribly insensitive comment! :-)

  20. Peter Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 11:43 am

    hahaha funny stuff. Suicide?? That’s a bit harsh. I’m with the others; it’s the last thing I want. Who’s going to bring the servers back up? You guys can kill yourselves AFTER you’ve brought the servers back up and have hired and auxilary team to take your place. ;)

    You could tell these guys are in there late 20s/early 30s. Like someone said above, read the newsletters. Btw I love the newsletters. :)

  21. ivan Says:
    October 2nd, 2005 at 4:36 am

    I’m sorry, but it’s not funny that Sri Lanka donated less than Dreamhost. 25K is a LOT of money in Sri Lanka. Besides, they were recently hit by the tsunami, so it’s amazing that they sent anything at all. I guess it was more of a gesture from the Sri Lankan governement than actual contribution to the US, because the US has helped so much Sri Lanka after the Tsunami.

    Congratulation on sending so much help to red cross. You guys rock!

  22. Jeff Says:
    October 3rd, 2005 at 4:03 pm

    So where is the real ‘post mortem’?

    Still haven’t heard the full story on what’s being done to keep this from happening again!!!

  23. Nate MC Says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 1:23 am

    You know that picture of the guy in the hard hat creeped me the hell out. My name is Nate that is my birthday on his helmet. Talk about the willies.

  24. Adrian Says:
    October 24th, 2005 at 5:00 am

    If you care to check on the GDP per capita of Sri Lanka (and you can do it here courtesy of your very own CIA..http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html) You will see that they only earn $4,000 per annum..Thats about $76 per week. Compare that to the GDP of The USA at $40000 ..Im sure you get the idea…

  25. Jonathan Says:
    December 10th, 2005 at 10:30 pm

    I think he only meant to say, that it is ironic, that a COMPANY, can contribute more than a COUNTRY.

    That was really the point, I think.

    If he wanted to compare, there were hundreds of countries that didn’t contribute at all to aid US suffering.

    If he wants to compare to the smallest government monetary contribution that’s Hungary’s of $5,000.

    Even Israel and Italy’s contributions were $0 (they sent a few doctors and beds though)

    Oh and we got $100 million from Saudi Arabia, the leading producer of “terrorists”.

  26. Jane Says:
    December 13th, 2005 at 8:09 am

    Very hard to download videos in slow internet

  27. Unofficial DreamHost Blog » Blog Archive » DreamHost Year in Review Says:
    January 1st, 2006 at 1:27 am

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