The Writers Strike
November 9, 2007 on 8:42 am | In Insider View, Musings, Rants by Josh Jones | 25 Comments
In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been the last few weeks.. well, I’ve been nowhere. But at the same time, I have been somewhere… showing solidarity with my poor writing brothers!
Now, hopefully I can sneak this one little post in withoug being condemned as a “scab”… maybe if I do my best to make it bad. Which should be easy since I honestly have nothing to say. At least nothing hosting-related. But I do have one strike-related thing to say.
The Stock Market Strikes
A ton of good it does now, but I was this close to doing a post on Monday about how it seemed like it was top-of-the-bubble time, and everybody should GET OUT out of the market RIGHT THEN!
How did I know?
Have you seen Wired Magazine lately? The last issue was I believe 272 pages.
The best gauge of a tech market bubble is the thickness of Wired. And Wired ain’t been this heavy since March 2000. I remember around 2003 it was down to like eight pages.
Of course, now that I’ve told everybody, it will cease being a reliable predictor.
The second indicator is that, believe it or not, our daily signups are correlated to the stock market! It’s true! On days when the stock market goes way up, we get maybe 5-10% more signups than average, and on days when it’s way down, we get around 5-10% less!
If only our signups would predict the stock market rather than follow it. Hedge funds would be buying up web hosts left and right!
Nevertheless, any daily correlation is still very weird to me. Are there really people out there who are like “Oh crap, I lost $10,000 in Google today, I guess I’ll have to put off that $100 for a year of hosting until Friday.”?
Apparently.
Well, that’s it, I’m off to the picket lines. Who knows how long it will be until enough inspiration strikes again for me to break this fast. This fast… of words.
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November 9th, 2007 at 10:14 am
short post!!
are you on strike too?
November 9th, 2007 at 10:45 am
No new product/service release :(
When can people start getting their Private MySQL Servers !!!
My Wish List:
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1. Lighttpd/NGINX (super fast AND lightweight web servers)
2. PHP official APC installed
3. Memcached installed for those people on DreamhostPS (private servers)
November 9th, 2007 at 11:24 am
I want to know what hole I’ve been living in that I missed seeing that WIRED cover for son long.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Mom, Tim’s whining again.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
“No new product/service release :(”
You mean from the one shared host who gives (by far) the most features and resources on the entire web?
November 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
YAY I love to randomly bold text and italicize words in my sentences. I makes the reader pay more attention and makes me look super cool!!
November 9th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
@fsck
You’re a pimp and we all no it.
+1 for PHP APC and lighttpd. I don’t know what memcached is so I can’t give props for that.
November 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
When the new panel went live, I said that I didn’t like the tag cloud. I’d just like to let you know that little by little I started using it for things, and now I use it every day for a significant portion of my panel navigation. As a matter of fact, I wish you’d put a link to the cloud on every page in the panel so that we can get back to it quickly to get to another location.
The panel has always been my favorite part of Dreamhost… thanks for having the vision to create it!
November 10th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I would like PHP upgraded to 5.2.5.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:45 am
fsck, when Josh is excited, he actually talks JUST like his posts. You can feel the italics and see the bold in his expression. It’s quite amusing, and anyone who’s talked to him for any length of time can probably imagine every sentence he posts on this blog, motion by motion.
November 11th, 2007 at 11:19 am
@Tim
+1 for PHP APC
+1 for nginx
November 11th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Man, does anyone remember how f***ing cool Wired was around 1994 to 1996, and then Conde Nast bought it and it started to suck? Can anyone suggest a real in-print magazine that is as cool today as Wired was then?
November 11th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Ah big fat Wired mag remember big fat Red Herring?
November 12th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
@Pete — Thanks for the insight!
@Shawn — c’mon, we need PHP 5.3-dev — yay namespaces!
November 13th, 2007 at 9:10 am
DreamhostPS idea
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Offer more software support on private server.
I’ll explain … since private servers are more secure in the sense that no other people are in “your pool” … why not start offering software installed on a private server that can’t be installed on a shared-host setup.
Such as:
* memcache
* PHP APC (or any other PHP accelerator)
* etc..
On a private server, you don’t have to worry that someone else will be reading *your* memcache etc.
Offering additional software support on the private servers would be a great incentive for people to upgrade to a DreamhostPS account.
Just my 2 cents
Geoff
P.S. I am currently a DreamhostPS customer
November 15th, 2007 at 6:15 am
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=649236
November 16th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Actually its the dumb vapourware ads that indicate the upcoming crash more than the actually thickness.
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