And then there were two.

April 27, 2006 on 10:53 am | In New Features by Josh Jones | 19 Comments

Some twins are not so cool.

We liked this weblog so much, we started another!

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/ is the brand-stinking-new ugly step-twin to this, the Official DreamHost Blog!

Over there we’ll post announcements only of interest to our customers (because, yeah, so many non-customers read this blog). You know, policy changes, downtime, new features… things of that ilk.

There is of course an RSS feed as well as a metric ton of categories so you can choose to only subscribe to the sorts of issues you care about.

This is actually completely replacing our old announcements system at the panel.

Email announcements just weren’t cutting it.. hundreds of thousands of emails took FOREVER to send out, junk-mail filters were catching them, and of course if the announcement was related to email problems, it was all moot anyway! Also, using an RSS feed is so very Web 2.0 of us!

We also thought it was a good idea to have critical announcements not on our panel, which has known to, once in a blue moon, be as we say in polite company, “completely unreachable.” In fact, dreamhoststatus.com is completely off-network and not even at a dreamhost.com domain name! It is still using our dns servers, but we plan to change even that sometime soon.

So please, go bookmark dreamhoststatus.com today and probably even subscribe to the RSS feed!

19 Responses to “And then there were two.”

  1. S Jain Says:

    What are yous afraid of guys? Why have you turned off the comments on the status blog? Can’t handle the heat guys? I thought you were better than that.

  2. Anonymous Says:

    I think it’s perfectly reasonable for them to disable comments on the status blog. DreamHost already has a support system where you can voice questions and concerns. Why should they have to read (and possibly respond) to discussions in yet another location?

  3. not important Says:

    I prefer the Olsen Twins :D

  4. TB Says:

    Site is down…I thought (which made me laugh), until I noticed that the link has a quote in it. So what do you when Dreamhoststatus goes down?

  5. Unofficial DreamHost Blog Says:

    New DreamHost Status Page…

    The DreamHost off-network status page has been relaunched as a WordPress blog with a new layout at the old address status.dreamhost.com and on a new domain dreamhoststatus.com.
    The site is hosted on a seperate network, in a seperate physical location,….

  6. Barbara Says:

    http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

  7. Damien Says:

    So, the big question is, who does Dreamhost pick as a web hoster? ;-D

    BTW the Olsen twins look pretty darn ill, someone get them in therapy quick, and hide them on some uncharted island for a few years while they pull themselves together, they look like they’re about to turn zombie or something.

  8. Rob Says:

    They’re not ill, they just need a sammich.

    Better order a couple sammiches, actually…

  9. David Harrison Says:

    Are you kidding? They look absolutely gorgeous! Though the one on the right (whichever she may be) looks gorgeousererer.

    In response to the actual content of the entry, I’ll probably be less aware of what’s going on now, since I did actually get and read the email announcements. Though updates are usually mentioned in the monthly newsletter, I guess I’ll just have to hope that the upcoming newsletters aren’t completely incomprehensible like the last one was.

    Sorry DH, but thumbs down this time, I guess I’m just old fashioned for prefering emails to RSS feeds.

  10. Nathan Friedly Says:

    Ahhahaha

    I love how your pictures have nothing to do with context the story!

  11. Bryan Says:

    On the status weblog I suggest a timestamp be in the post titles. At least month, day, and hour. e.g. May 1 @ 14 or something. An ‘hours ago’ would be another possibility but I don’t know how’d you do that in WP.

  12. Nathan Friedly Says:

    I think I’v seen an hours ago on a wordpress blog. not sure if it was in the theme or a plugin.

    heres an example – and its on dreamhost no less! http://blog.garbledygook.com/

    I think it has something to do with this k2 theme: http://getk2.com/

  13. Dallas Says:

    There are times on the postings and in the RSS feed itself. I’m not sure what benefit putting them in the titles also would have.

  14. Rich Schmidt Says:

    Where do I go to tell Josh Jones he’s the awesomest code hider in the whole world? Haha… The newsletter cracked me up…

  15. Tim Says:

    1&1 Sucks
    Screw iPower
    Verio you Blow
    PowWeb Is Dead
    Josh Jones Is The Awesomest

  16. David Harrison Says:

    Looks like the April Fools joke from last month came back to haunt you. ;)

    The 8.4 newsletter should have been called the April newsletter, but it followed on from last months “joke” and was called the May newsletter instead.

    Incidentally, I didn’t discover the, “ENCODED SPY MESSAGE.” Did anyone else get it?

  17. Luddite Steve Says:

    Count me in as one of the old-fashioned ones: email means I’ll actually *remember* that there’s a dreamhost newsletter. It’s easy enough to unsubscribe, so I think most of us that get the letter actually *want* to get it (and read it).

    Now I’ll have to sit around and have an epiphany… “oh, wait, it’s a new month, I wonder if they have the new DH newsletter up?” I don’t see it happening (unfortunately)… *sigh*

  18. David Harrison Says:

    The newsletter is still being emailed out, just not the announcements.

  19. Anon Says:

    It appears Dreamhost selected Fiber Internet Center http://www.fibernoc.net/ to host their off network server.

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