Comments on: DreamHost Goes North (San Francisco)

By: siva

siva — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:17:05 +0000

Even My hosting server often giving this kind of errors. Are the so called Load balanced servers will solve this issue?

Sometimes my emails are very slow just because of this Network outage.

By: Please Upgrade

Please Upgrade — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:35:30 +0000

Python has now been upgraded to version 2.5. Dreamhost, please uppdate.

http://python.org/

And since I know you guys use debian, here’s the link for the package

http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/python2.5

By: dhtest

dhtest — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:37:01 +0000

dhtest

By: Dallas

Dallas — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:53:05 +0000

The San Francisco position doesn\’t list a salary on our jobs page but it\’s been advertised elsewhere as \’starting at $50,000\’. We will definitely consider offering more if an applicant is very qualified or experienced. Our tech support positions typically start between $30,000 to $35,000 so that may be what the commenter in #21 was referring to.

Also, another blog post discussing our recent problems and what we are working on to strengthen oursevles for the future is coming very soon.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:51:13 +0000

Heh.. good luck on this one. Last job posting I saw was for somebody to work with them down in southern cali. Salary was starting at like $32,000. I think I make about that much each year and no way I would be able to make that work down south. I’m in Southern oregon and I barely get by. No way $32k/year is gonna work in San Fran. You should put your office outside of San Fran like Sac or Hayward.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:22:05 +0000

“Why another office in California? Because that’s where we’re already at. Having done telecommuting from another state for two years in DreamHost’s early days, I can say that it’s not quite the panacea it’s made out to be.”

Is the panacea you are talking about California or telecommuting?

By: cricket

cricket — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:35:20 +0000

I second the call for a hindsight overview. What happened, what you/the vendor originally thought, what actually happened, and what you’re going to do differently in the future (one can only hope) to avoid a problem of this length and severity in the future.

I don’t expect you to offer 100% uptime, that’s impossible. I do expect you, as a business, to invest in preventative measures (server/network re-architecture, more senior techs/retaining consultants, redundancy) that shorten the length and “reach” of any given downtime.

By: ImageProduction

ImageProduction — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:48:04 +0000

Is this the right place to request a hindsight overview of what happened the past month ? What went wrong and how you could have avoided it ? Also it’d be nice to post some pics of the folks that lost their sleep trying to fix things in your NOC. They r true heroes IMHO. (Not to mention your support stuff, I am sure they were abused savagely the past few days).

You at least owe us(and the tech stuff) that much so come on, start posting….

A happy-to-be-your-customer customer.

By: SK

SK — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:08:55 +0000

Second that. Put some servers in the UK then my .com sites for uk companies will appear in google.co.uk.

And we have double the voltage too so your servers will last twice as long ;-)

By: James Weston

James Weston — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:40:02 +0000

Hey, DH
I live in the uk and i would love some servers in the uk.
Even may be an office.

Peace out DH
James Weston /.