36 Comments

1. 1

   Serves me right for laughing at “anonymous lazy dreamhost employee” a couple blog entries back.

   Comment by Pete — January 25, 2007 #

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   The whole Brea office just quit! All at once!

   Comment by Brett — January 25, 2007 #

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   It’s fun when you do an interview with your door blocked. At least the interviewee was a good sport and helped clear the way. So much for professionalism.

   Comment by Ralph — January 25, 2007 #

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   Hey! And who put *MY* desk name tag on top of the computer services neon sign? You guys are crazy name tag switchers!

   Comment by Justin — January 25, 2007 #

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   hah, I love how the only commenters so far have been DH employees — any customers who started reading this post have probably switched hosting

   Comment by Charlie T — January 25, 2007 #

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   Oh man, that’s amazing. Despite any problems I may have with you, I’ll stay just for the blog, and the antics pulled. Most laid back hosting company ever!

   Keep up the (hillariously) good work.

   Comment by Ricky — January 25, 2007 #

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   What did you guys do with the Taco Bell on Brea Blvd.!??!!!

   And please leave the dairy cow alone, (it’s special).

   Some people just should not be allowed to enter Orange County, let alone Brea.

   Just a word of warning, punks. You better ask yourself, just how many Brea Cops are required to pull over someone on any given Brea street, and how many vehicles are required to do so(?) ( a LOT; not much else to do there) with their lights flashing brightly; while the ‘leader’ says to you, “look at me son, what? Are you squinting from the spotlight behind my head? (and all those flashing cop cars behind it) What(?), you must have you been smoking something then”. And then you better ask yourself, while in-discussion with the local law; is all this worth it? Do I really BELONG in Brea?” (And if the answer is yes, then what?)

   Follow your heart. Truth can be so fleeting, and open to interpretation after-the-fact; and you can make the most of that too, so the heart will always win.

   Comment by 337 — January 26, 2007 #

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   Is all my credit card and SSN data kept behind that wooden door with no dead bolt?

   Comment by Simon Jessey — January 26, 2007 #

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   Whoa whoa whoa. Are those DL360s? Not bad. G4Ps?

   Come on, you guys have gotta have some 380s or 385s in there! Maybe some 585s?

   Then again, hell if I know the layout of your datacenter… ;)

   Comment by phoenix — January 26, 2007 #

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    @Simon

    The brea office is separate from the data center, there are no servers in that office. Your data is safe!

    Comment by Justin — January 26, 2007 #

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    If there is another raid can you get me a piece of carpet please.

    Just a small piece, about 6×4 for my downstairs wotsit!

    Comment by Norm — January 26, 2007 #

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    Re: Simon

    The bolt is what was keeping us out!

    Stupid bolt.

    Thanks Pete!

    Comment by Kelly — January 26, 2007 #

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    I do what I can, apparently.

    Comment by Pete — January 26, 2007 #

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    Hey, Pete, did anyone give you a wedgie yet?

    Comment by Terri@DreamHost — January 26, 2007 #

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    I don’t know why everybody is looking at me. I’m innocent. If I’m expected to be on guard against lies from my co-workers then the terrorists have already won!

    Comment by Pete — January 26, 2007 #

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    we must be vigilant and stay the course! suspect everyone, trust no one.

    Comment by Steven — January 26, 2007 #

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    hehe,
    must be very late (;

    Comment by marko — January 26, 2007 #

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    that blocking the door with boxes reminds of when i worked in a bookstore.

    when we were bored and someone went into the back to use the bathroom, we would often block the door with our boxes of books. and these boxes were big. and we would turn out the lights in the stockroom.

    but the best part was that the door opened into the bathroom. so the person turns off the lights in the bathroom, opens the door, and splat! right into a wall of boxes.

    then they had to dig themselves out.

    oh, good times….

    Comment by vinnie — January 27, 2007 #

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    Nice one guys! By the way, any chance of throwing one of ‘em my way? ;););)

    Comment by Nigel Jones — January 27, 2007 #

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    >> “At 12:30 in the morning, after moving 60 servers, what else could we possibly want to move for a STAGE 2?”

    Over 400,000 domains are hosted on just 60 servers. Now that’s craziness.

    That’s 6666.666666666666666666666666666 domains per server!

    All of those 6’s freaks me out.

    Comment by Jack — January 27, 2007 #

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    Who said we have just 60 servers?

    Your math freaks me out!

    Comment by Brett — January 28, 2007 #

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    According to Dreamhost, they have “over 700 servers”.

    http://dreamhost.com/aboutus-ourpast.html

    Comment by Zach — January 28, 2007 #

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    Even that page is already outdated. I believe someone (Jeff?) recently said it was over 1,200 servers.

    Comment by Mike — January 28, 2007 #

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    1322 according to our database!

    (That includes mail, mysql, web, etc.)

    Comment by Kelly — January 29, 2007 #

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    >> “1322 according to our database!”

    @Kelly

    Does that include dedicated server customers?

    Micheal

    Comment by Greg — January 29, 2007 #

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    That is all servers marked “up” in our database. It’s everything , including file servers, web servers, mail servers, dedicated servers, etc.

    (And, by the way, it’s 1332 now. :)

    Comment by Kelly — January 30, 2007 #

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    @Kelly

    How does a company name that many servers? Do you every get to the point where you just start using numbers?

    I’m curious to know if there is any logic to naming that many servers to help segregate/categorize if is it simply making up a name.

    Comment by Greg — January 30, 2007 #

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    @Greg

    It’s easier for the customers to remember “pringle” than “peon1144″, and changing from naming them to using numbers would be evil and corporate and bad for DH’s laid-back image. And more importantly, it’s fun, and it’s not hard to think of a random word that sounds okay.

    (I’m totally not a DH employee.)

    Comment by Matt Nordhoff — February 1, 2007 #

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    > It’s easier for the customers to remember “pringle”
    > than “peon1144″

    Not only that, it’s easier for DreamHost employees, as well. Using numbers would have been all well and good when we only had 4 servers, but at this point it’d be impossible to remember any of them. We very rarely use ‘boring’ names with numbers, and even then it’s usually limited to mail servers.

    Also… It can sometimes be hard to think up a bunch of (related) names, by virtue of us needing so many.

    - Jeff @ DreamHost

    Comment by Jeff C. — February 1, 2007 #

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    My faith restored! You guys are back on my “to be considered” list of hosting companies xD
    …..
    *sigh*
    I guess that means I have to go find the hosting plans now xD
    ..
    …
    ..
    Sooooo many hosting companies..
    Luckily it’s a saturday night so I can stay up late xD

    Comment by MML — February 3, 2007 #

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    :)

    I always enjoy what i read here - reminds me so much of my own business - mess around as much as you want, as long as no one gets hurt, and the job gets done.

    IT ROCKS!

    Comment by amckern — February 3, 2007 #

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    LOL!!!! That has to be the most rebelious cool thing I’ve EVER SEEN :) Stealing a neon sign and then replacing it :) Hehe! Great guys! Seriously!

    Comment by entity_azirius — February 4, 2007 #

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    You guys are massive, I don’t regret changing my hosting over here =0

    Comment by jez — February 4, 2007 #

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    Errr… guys? Hello? Do you ever work? Ever? ;)

    1332 servers? Dear god allmighty, what will happen if a disgruntled employee creates a virus that bounces from one server to another until it reaches all them, go into maximum overdrive, and explode in a great ball of lava and fire?

    So in case you need to be prepared, how many fire extinguishers do you currently have?

    Comment by Empresas Peruanas — February 6, 2007 #

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