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June 28, 2007 on 10:54 am | In Funnyish, Insider View, Promotions by Josh Jones |

Just now we had this little customer exchange:

I can’t get to one of my sites via web browser. My other sites hosted by you are available.
Happy DreamHost Customer

Hello HDC,

Sorry for the inconvenience.

However, I had no problem viewing your site from this side. I’ve
also viewed your server history and saw that no reboots were done. So
all looks well with your site from what I can see.

Please contact us if you’re still not seeing your site from your
side.

Thanks!
Kacy

Alright, we’ll just chalk it up to this guy:

Heh, that sure caught us off-guard! Hee hee… I almost wonder if he just lied about there being a problem so he could send us that!

Nonetheless, it sort of ties in nicely with the fact that we were thinking about giving away an 8GB iPhone, if only we could come up with a good reason to!

You see, ever since I heard about this guy camping out for an iPhone since Monday morning, I thought it’d be fun to camp out for one myself. Not have one, mind you, just camp out.

I’m perfectly happy with my Nokia 6010 on T-Mobile (although this is intriguing) .. mostly because I can drop it out a third story window, watch it explode into a dozen plastic pieces, and then put it back together and make a call. In fact, that’s exactly what I do every day when leaving work, just so I don’t have to lug it down the elevator.

myPhone

(Aside: when I heard that somebody was already camping out on Monday, I thought to myself: “That’s insane! They estimate there will be 3 million iPhones available at launch. And anyway, isn’t the point of camping out to minimize your time in line while still guaranteeing you get one of the items? In fact, wouldn’t you have to be a little insane to be the first person in any camp-out line? If nobody else is waiting yet, why would you need to?” Honestly, I really did think that whole thing.

Well, this answers my question! There is a benefit to being the insane first person in line.. you get interviewed by the local news!)

Anyway, I was inspired. I promise I’ll be getting one of them thar 8GB iPhone’s tomorrow.. as soon as I see somebody else camped out in front of my local AT&T store, I’ll line up right behind them, with my laptop, EVDO, extra battery, and faithful hound in tow.

Where do the years go?

And then, after taking it out of the box and ogling it for a couple hours, I’m going to just give it away!

But to whom?!

Hmm. How about… to whoever posts in the comments of this post a link to the (photoshopped?) image that best illustrates (in my sole opinion) the cause for mysterious DreamHost downtime! The cuter the better, the cleverer the better, the cornier the better, the DreamHost logo-ier the better.

So far, that Cookie Monster one above is winning!

The deadline for the comment post is 6pm PDT, tomorrow, Friday June 29th, 2007; west-coast iPhone launch moment!

…

GO!

(P.S. The winner will have to activate the iPhone themselves with one of AT&T’s plans. Or re-sell it on ebay or craigslist.)

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1

Didn’t you get the memo? It was these two guys:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/06/24/donut-worry/

Comment by Damien — June 28, 2007 #
2

I’m not entering the contest. I just wanted to tell you how SOFT that dog looks. Awesomely soft. Damned soft.

Really damn soft.

Comment by Princess Nix — June 28, 2007 #
3

Wow! Great contest. Just a shame it leaves all your european customers out of the loop. WTG!

Comment by Thomas — June 28, 2007 #
4

Just in case you think that image is the best one, I want to be the first to post the link:

the link.

Comment by Eduardo Habkost — June 28, 2007 #
5

I hope multiple entries are okay, I have a few:

http://www.n715dp.com/links/dreamhost/dreamhost_downtime_01.jpg

http://www.n715dp.com/links/dreamhost/dreamhost_downtime_02.jpg

http://www.n715dp.com/links/dreamhost/dreamhost_downtime_03.jpg

http://www.n715dp.com/links/dreamhost/dreamhost_downtime_04.jpg

I found the images around the web and ’shopped each one a bit - I am not very good at it. No hard feelings on the statements in them.

Comment by Dave — June 28, 2007 #
6

http://www.collegedowntime.com/funnypictures/images/Google_Muthafucka.jpg

and

http://www.damninteresting.net/content/tech_diff.jpg

Comment by weston deboer — June 28, 2007 #
7

My puppy pee’d on all your servers;

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/15/19719056_0b5d56f2fb.jpg
That’s why she is so tired, the sheltie to the left helped as well.

She’s very exhausted from all that peeing;
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/13/16725637_1d65f90544.jpg

I told her she was bad and put her in jail;
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/17121792_beeeed059f.jpg

But darn if she isnt cute so I had to let her out;
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/13/16725649_add127228c.jpg

So well, the servers could go down again, but I can’t lock her up again. She’s to cute!

Comment by pixie — June 28, 2007 #
8

turns out, it was gremlins hiding in the data center.

http://www.sabrejack.com/images/gremlins.jpg

Comment by Pete — June 28, 2007 #
9

http://www.cmtsministries.com/test/happyservers.jpg

Even servers need a little action sometimes.

Comment by Leah — June 28, 2007 #
10

http://www.mbleigh.com/dreamhost_hamster.jpg

Comment by Michael Bleigh — June 28, 2007 #
11

I am sure his mom won’t mind if I let her use the iPhone every once in a while, right?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1437/652964246_27306658fa.jpg

Comment by Horrible Father — June 28, 2007 #
12

http://www.mcdevzone.com/images/bugz.png

Comment by Mike — June 28, 2007 #
13

The problem started when my dog joined the Dreamhost support team.

http://www.mbleigh.com/dreamhost_zoey3.jpg

She didn’t quite understand the signage around the office

http://www.mbleigh.com/dreamhost_zoey1.jpg

And then she started sleeping on the job!

http://www.mbleigh.com/dreamhost_zoey2.jpg

Comment by Michael Bleigh — June 28, 2007 #
14

It was a cat looking for his missing catnip.

http://images.jonathandbloom.com/9335163_3f89c8c7b7_o-20070628-180458.jpg

Comment by Jonathan Bloom — June 28, 2007 #
15

tsk tsk, sleeping on the job :)

http://dump.th-clan.com/DH.jpg

Comment by Will — June 28, 2007 #
16

At dreamhost we do everything with extreme precision and devotion :D

http://storage.mehanizam.net/dh1.jpg

Comment by Fox — June 28, 2007 #
17

@Fox: methinks you know MikeH ;)

Comment by JeremyK@DH — June 28, 2007 #
18

1 more for now

http://storage.mehanizam.net/ops-i-did-it-agaian.jpg

Comment by Fox — June 28, 2007 #
19

Having reviewed this picture of your NOC that I acquired through means which I cannot disclose, I must determine that you are suffering from what professionals would call a “multiple-cause failure”.

Comment by bdu — June 28, 2007 #
20

I’m guessing that your addition of the cat and Animal to the NOC team were a measure intended to offset the presence of the giant spiders, but I assure you they will result in a net-negative uptime. I suggest their removal and immedately call an exterminator. I’m not one to moralize, but employees should also probably refrain from illicit substances on the job…

Comment by bdu — June 28, 2007 #
21

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3821/oopsnv5.jpg

I KNOW these little buggers are your source of the problems.

Comment by Collin Banko — June 28, 2007 #
22

Your CAPTCHAs are borked. If this shows up twice it’s not because I’M retarded…

http://nyquil.org/uploads/dreamhost.png

Comment by jer@nyquil.org — June 28, 2007 #
23

In order to reduce power consumption and go green Dreamhost switch to a more energy efficient method of computing.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l114/monkeyboy7706/abacus.jpg

Comment by gb77 — June 28, 2007 #
24

http://smoking-room.ru/blog/uploads/ToiletServer.jpg
http://img.worsethanfailure.com/images/200706/error‘d/orange_cable.jpg

Comment by rob — June 28, 2007 #
25

I am just waiting for one of these to not be accessible because their server is down. That one should win.

Comment by Sam McD — June 28, 2007 #
26

Will’s #15 is the best. Oh man. The text on the screen… priceless.

Comment by Anthony DiSante — June 28, 2007 #
27

Here’s mine:
http://www.ravenoak.net/graphics/dreamhostcontest.jpg

Comment by Raven — June 28, 2007 #
28

yea, #15 is pretty freakin awesome.

@rob: the worsethanfailure link you posted is 404ing, if you have a new url for it just say and I’ll fix it up :)

Comment by JeremyK@DH — June 28, 2007 #
29

Windows-Support at an Linux-Server. That can’t work ;)

Comment by Patrick — June 28, 2007 #
30

Windows-Support at an Linux-Server. That can’t work ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/schreibblogade/139611552/

Comment by Patrick — June 28, 2007 #
31

I got your downtime right here!

http://blog.garrettvonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dh-baby.jpg

It’s hard to stay mad at a sysadmin with a face like that…

Comment by Garrett — June 28, 2007 #
32

I got your downtime right here!

http://blog.garrettvonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dh-baby.jpg

It’s hard to stay mad at a sysadmin with a face like that…

(fyi - CAPTCHA didn’t work for me either)

Comment by Garrett — June 28, 2007 #
33

Okay, listen, we already know who did it. Your customer just didn’t specify how he knew. Here’s a lot shot of what the poor fella walked in on just before he lost the ability to access his site.

http://indieheart.com/dreamhostculprit.htm

Comment by jillnojack — June 28, 2007 #
34

http://xanthra.com/dreamhost/entry.png

:)

Comment by Justin M — June 28, 2007 #
35

The guys who thought it was a fire problem had it right. Only problem is what KIND of fire…

http://eschew.org/tmp/happy-dh-invisible-fire.jpg

Comment by Ben Karel — June 28, 2007 #
36

http://www.forumspile.com/You-Are-Masturbating-Pope.jpg

Comment by Ted — June 28, 2007 #
37

http://banhammer.com/serverproblems.jpg

Yea… we seem to be having a bit of what you might call an “animal” problem. Dreamhost will be right back!

Comment by Robert — June 28, 2007 #
38

[...] is having a contest on their blog where you can win one of the incredible hyped Apple [...]

Pingback by Unofficial DreamHost Blog » Blog Archive » Win an Apple iPhone — June 28, 2007 #
39

It’s always my fault . . . with a little help from the cage monkeys.
My Fault Pic

Comment by Tavis — June 28, 2007 #
40

This man is the culprit. Obviously.

http://igargoyle.com/archives/fanboy.jpg

Comment by Catherine — June 28, 2007 #
41

This man is the culprit, Obviously.

http://igargoyle.com/archives/fanboy.jpg

Comment by Catherine — June 28, 2007 #
42

We all know that downtimes are caused by a variety of unfortunate circumstances (and NOT furry creatures), which can usually be attributed to an unorganized network structure and/or incompetence or distraction of the network supervisors.

While I don’t want to point any fingers, I think the highly sophisticated Dreamhost Surveillance System (codename “Greco”) speaks for itself:

http://www.blasko.com/dreamhost_062807_105431.jpg

Comment by Rob — June 28, 2007 #
43

Yes, I *completely* blame Tavis, cage monkeys or not!

Comment by Patrick — June 28, 2007 #
44

Here’s my go at it.

http://files.basementcoder.com/theheist.png

Comment by AJ Kirwin — June 28, 2007 #
45

I think Sparta is to blame…

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8417/dreamhostwx7.jpg

Comment by Jonathan — June 28, 2007 #
46

Here’s a second go!

http://files.basementcoder.com/itallfelldown.png

Enjoy it.

Comment by AJ Kirwin — June 28, 2007 #
47

another try:

http://img.worsethanfailure.com/images/200706/error%27d/orange_cable.jpg

there’s a quote in the url between “error” and “d” which is causing problems.

Comment by rob — June 28, 2007 #
48

And Number Three!

http://files.basementcoder.com/the_dh_guy.png

And that’s it, I got a flight to go catch :D

Comment by AJ Kirwin — June 29, 2007 #
49

Here’s my try.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/zelara/power.jpg
I am a huge nerd.

Comment by Rita — June 29, 2007 #
50

Employee-owned webhosting isn’t always the smartest thing :p

http://stash.dedicational.net/dh.jpg

Comment by Koen Werdler — June 29, 2007 #

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