Comments on: It All Falls Down http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/ Tales From the Inside! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:18:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Hot jessica simpson. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-2/#comment-105840 Hot jessica simpson. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:16:24 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-105840 <strong>Hot jessica simpson....</strong> Hot jessica simpson.... Hot jessica simpson….

Hot jessica simpson….

]]> By: dustbury.com » Worst week ever? http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-2/#comment-98532 dustbury.com » Worst week ever? Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:11:58 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-98532 [...] week this site and a few thousand others were down late Thursday into Friday, and the story from the Web host is fraught with pain and sorrow: You see, every hour we have a little script that runs that purges old dead entries from our [...] [...] week this site and a few thousand others were down late Thursday into Friday, and the story from the Web host is fraught with pain and sorrow: You see, every hour we have a little script that runs that purges old dead entries from our [...]

]]> By: db http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-90648 db Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:03:16 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-90648 I ahve to say thats one of the better posts about tech problems. I'm wondering whats happened in the past at some hosting companies and I never found out. I ahve to say thats one of the better posts about tech problems. I’m wondering whats happened in the past at some hosting companies and I never found out.

]]> By: Code / Appnel Solutions http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-90554 Code / Appnel Solutions Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:15:20 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-90554 <strong>Making it look easy isn't cheap...</strong> Late last week, Henry Blodget posted about an "Awesome Startup Idea" he has for a MT/WordPress as service business after his group struggle through some system issues. Being near and dear to my heart I call in to question is the realism of his reques... Making it look easy isn’t cheap…

Late last week, Henry Blodget posted about an “Awesome Startup Idea” he has for a MT/WordPress as service business after his group struggle through some system issues. Being near and dear to my heart I call in to question is the realism of his reques…

]]> By: Christoph Dollis http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-89899 Christoph Dollis Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:32:32 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-89899 A very thorough and logical answer Dave @ August 29 11:55 pm. I never thought it completely through. Thanks for the education. A very thorough and logical answer Dave @ August 29 11:55 pm. I never thought it completely through.

Thanks for the education.

]]> By: Jiminy Cricket http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-89544 Jiminy Cricket Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:42:07 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-89544 For the love of god, contract with some outsiders and do a full audit of your technology, network, power, HVAC, IT security, etc. I'm all for "doing it yourself", but you've now got 100,000+ customers who depend on you (yes, none pay a lot by themselves, but collectively that's a lot of money) and it's clear that you are missing the knowledge of how to architect things to be appropriately reliable, scalable and secure. Consider it a one-time cost of doing business, like going to school. Continuing to "guess" or "hope" that you've fully fixed the problem despite massive multiple downtimes throughout the year is just folly. Admit you're out of your league, get some education through these audits, and then implement the recommendations. Otherwise I'd say there's a 100% chance of a similarly massive outage caused by poor engineering practices, faulty architecture, lack of true redundancy, whatever in the near future for dreamhost For the love of god, contract with some outsiders and do a full audit of your technology, network, power, HVAC, IT security, etc.

I’m all for “doing it yourself”, but you’ve now got 100,000+ customers who depend on you (yes, none pay a lot by themselves, but collectively that’s a lot of money) and it’s clear that you are missing the knowledge of how to architect things to be appropriately reliable, scalable and secure.

Consider it a one-time cost of doing business, like going to school. Continuing to “guess” or “hope” that you’ve fully fixed the problem despite massive multiple downtimes throughout the year is just folly. Admit you’re out of your league, get some education through these audits, and then implement the recommendations.

Otherwise I’d say there’s a 100% chance of a similarly massive outage caused by poor engineering practices, faulty architecture, lack of true redundancy, whatever in the near future for dreamhost

]]> By: Escrito dot Info » Web Server Hardware Upgrades http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-89488 Escrito dot Info » Web Server Hardware Upgrades Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:14:42 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-89488 [...] I wasn’t aware that the host was down, it was a good thing that we were informed of the status and rectification. During the weekend, the [...] [...] I wasn’t aware that the host was down, it was a good thing that we were informed of the status and rectification. During the weekend, the [...]

]]> By: Technical Writing http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-89481 Technical Writing Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:56:23 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-89481 I really like the transparency afforded by these posts. It makes anonymous errors less frustrating, and gives us a chance to see what ongoing problems get fixed. Having worked with computers for years, I'm not really concerned about getting phone updates regarding outages. In my experience, if a major outage occurs, it's because something went really wrong and talking to someone about it isn't going to help me unless that someone is a licensed psychiatric health care professional. I still would like Dreamhost to make its own version of "Second Life." This would give me more ways to screw around when claiming to be mainting web presences. I really like the transparency afforded by these posts. It makes anonymous errors less frustrating, and gives us a chance to see what ongoing problems get fixed.

Having worked with computers for years, I’m not really concerned about getting phone updates regarding outages. In my experience, if a major outage occurs, it’s because something went really wrong and talking to someone about it isn’t going to help me unless that someone is a licensed psychiatric health care professional.

I still would like Dreamhost to make its own version of “Second Life.” This would give me more ways to screw around when claiming to be mainting web presences.

]]> By: HELM, WHM/cPanel, Windows, Linux and SEO Blog » Blog Archive » Dreamhost review, 2.5 years http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-89449 HELM, WHM/cPanel, Windows, Linux and SEO Blog » Blog Archive » Dreamhost review, 2.5 years Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:35:01 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-89449 [...] last few weeks http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/have been rough. The core router issues were back, and indirectly caused their DNS update script to [...] [...] last few weeks http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/have been rough. The core router issues were back, and indirectly caused their DNS update script to [...]

]]> By: Sun http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/comment-page-1/#comment-89440 Sun Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:10:41 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/08/21/it-all-falls-down/#comment-89440 Againnn? Woowwwwwww! D.H. can change some services.... Againnn?
Woowwwwwww! D.H. can change some services….

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