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Unofficial DreamHost Blog » Blog Archive » DreamHost Year in Review — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:27:09 +0000

[...] Down Time Two major incidents happend in 2005. The Power Outage in entire Los Angeles in September and a massive DDoS attack in December. Major crisis like this is impossible to avoid, but when it does happen, it’s nice to have a web host that is quite informative about what’s going on. [...]

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:09:15 +0000

Very hard to download videos in slow internet

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 05:30:53 +0000

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”.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:00:47 +0000

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…

By: Nate MC

Nate MC — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:23:54 +0000

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.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:03:03 +0000

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!!!

By: ivan

ivan — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:36:35 +0000

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!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:43:59 +0000

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. :)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:29:30 +0000

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! :-)

By: ann

ann — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:51:08 +0000

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…