Some Late Night Moves!
January 25, 2007 on 6:10 pm | In Foobars, Funnyish, Hardware, Insider View, Updates by Josh Jones |
Last night we made some moves.
Patrick and I moved about 60 servers!
And I only dropped one! (Sorry about that, bomberman.)
It took about two hours, and here we are, wrapping things up:
Stage 2? At 12:30 in the morning, after moving 60 servers, what else could we possibly want to move for a STAGE 2?
Hmm… something about “Brea”?
We passed this car in the parking lot.. and soon, we were at the OTHER DreamHost office.
We waited.. THE CON WAS ON!
Patrick had told Pete (who lives right by the office) that he was just in the area, at 1:30am on a Wednesday, and I wanted him to pick up some WWF glasses for the downtown office. But, HAD PETE PLAYED US FOR FOUR FOOLS?!
Apparently not….
We made short work of the coveted sign.
And then I decided to go raid the kitchen…. WHAAaaaa!!!!
Yes, very funny, Brea. But who’s wearing the cool shades now?!
As long as we were there, we thought we might as well have some fun…
And some more fun…
We took our time. We even checked out the Official DreamHost Museum!
Why hello there, Señor Corona, you sure are working late tonight!
Of course, we couldn’t just leave those poor, unsuspecting Breaites bare-walled!
Around 3:30, we were back “home.” Mission complete. Tired. Satisfied. Ugly.
The neon sign was finally where it has always been destined to be. Down in our NOC. The HEART of DreamHost.
Epilogue…
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January 25th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Serves me right for laughing at “anonymous lazy dreamhost employee” a couple blog entries back.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
The whole Brea office just quit! All at once!
January 25th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
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.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Hey! And who put *MY* desk name tag on top of the computer services neon sign? You guys are crazy name tag switchers!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
hah, I love how the only commenters so far have been DH employees — any customers who started reading this post have probably switched hosting
January 25th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
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.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:31 am
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.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Is all my credit card and SSN data kept behind that wooden door with no dead bolt?
January 26th, 2007 at 6:40 am
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… ;)
January 26th, 2007 at 6:41 am
@Simon
The brea office is separate from the data center, there are no servers in that office. Your data is safe!
January 26th, 2007 at 8:47 am
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!
January 26th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Re: Simon
The bolt is what was keeping us out!
Stupid bolt.
Thanks Pete!
January 26th, 2007 at 9:33 am
I do what I can, apparently.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Hey, Pete, did anyone give you a wedgie yet?
January 26th, 2007 at 11:19 am
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!
January 26th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
we must be vigilant and stay the course! suspect everyone, trust no one.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
hehe,
must be very late (;
January 27th, 2007 at 1:10 am
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….
January 27th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Nice one guys! By the way, any chance of throwing one of ‘em my way? ;););)
January 27th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
>> “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.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Who said we have just 60 servers?
Your math freaks me out!
January 28th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
According to Dreamhost, they have “over 700 servers”.
http://dreamhost.com/aboutus-ourpast.html
January 28th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Even that page is already outdated. I believe someone (Jeff?) recently said it was over 1,200 servers.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am
1322 according to our database!
(That includes mail, mysql, web, etc.)
January 29th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
>> “1322 according to our database!”
@Kelly
Does that include dedicated server customers?
Micheal
January 30th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
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. :)
January 30th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
@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.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:23 am
@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.)
February 1st, 2007 at 3:26 pm
> 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
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:43 am
My faith restored! You guys are back on my “to be considered” list of hosting companies xD
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*sigh*
I guess that means I have to go find the hosting plans now xD
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Sooooo many hosting companies..
Luckily it’s a saturday night so I can stay up late xD
February 3rd, 2007 at 5:08 am
:)
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!
February 3rd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
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February 4th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
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!
February 4th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
You guys are massive, I don’t regret changing my hosting over here =0
February 6th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
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?
February 25th, 2007 at 7:41 am
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