Here at DreamHost, we’re as serious about web hosting as we are about ping pong. And if we need more room for servers — or a quick doubles game — we’re totally in favor of expansion.
So when the situation calls for it, we move our table into the elevator lobby on our floor…
It doesn’t have a view like our regular ping pong room does, but we crash into the walls way less this way. And as people who host here can attest, crashing less is always a good thing.
Update: Building management apparently read this entry and just let us know that we can’t play ping pong in the lobby anymore. *sigh* I’d say that was the end of an era — but it only lasted a few weeks at best.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 am
i hope you check your Support Tickets first before playing Pong. it’s more than 5 hours since I sent a Support Ticket and I haven’t received a reply from you yet. Hello! Anybody there?!
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 am
I wasn’t invited… :( This is why it ended up in your office, Josh!
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 am
> i hope you check your Support Tickets
> first before playing Pong.
I’m a bit disappointed. It took nearly a week for someone to submit a “Why aren’t you doing XYZ instead of ABC?!” comment to the weblog.
You guys are getting slow. :)
Seriously, though. To those who think that TS people aren’t trying to get through to each and every one of you in a timely manner, you’re mistaken. Our employees work very hard, but there are all sorts of reasons why you may have to wait 4-5 or more hours for a response (the one tech who has an answer to your particular problem isn’t in yet, the problem is still being looked at, etc).
To those who think that TS should be working non-stop 24/7 without breaks in order to ensure that the queue is empty at all times, contact the California Labor Board and make your case.
- Jeff @ DreamHost Web Hosting
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Actually, there was some sort of issue and it was impossible to post a comment. I submitted a ticket and Jason fixed it so we could comment… otherwise, I’d bet you’d have been pleased!
Anyway, what I had wanted to post several days ago was that I looked at some of Jason’s other Vimeo videos and thought his lip dub to Army was Numa Numa level stuff!
September 4th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hey, be patient, it’s normal. One of my ticket hangs for a 64 hours! It’s a record for me. What’s happening?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
How do such obvious spambots like “iphone focus” get past the anti-spam plugin?
September 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Hey, i saw on the frontpage there’s un unlimited diskspace & bandwidth until 10th September? Did current customer get the same treats too? :(
September 10th, 2008 at 1:10 am
how fast my ticket got a respond? if using support ticket
September 10th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hi Josh!
How about this month’s newsletter?
Sharon.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
@Baja – We haven’t been able to get him out of the elevator lobby ever since they moved the ping pong table…
September 11th, 2008 at 6:34 am
You can check the support tickets and play pong whenever you want boys – good service ;-)
September 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
@Ants – I figured as much… hahahaha!
September 11th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
and apparently someone from the building reads this blog and security called us to say we couldn’t do it anymore.
WEAK!
I say next we move the pool table out there.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Newsletter
Newsletter
Newsletter
Newsletter… come on people, chant it up… I’m ready to read Josh’s presentation on the new Backups User feature!
September 11th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Also, that sad trombone link was brilliant and beautiful… anyone who’s just checkin the comments and not noticing the post update should go back up and enjoy! I am very impressed that someone, anyone on this vast (yet tiny) Earth, somewhere within the seas of people, had the vision to create THAT website! They should DEFINITELY receive some sort of award.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
And for the benefit of those who have not yet noticed the new feature, and are not forum folk and have not seen this thread:
http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=curious&Number=110597&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&part=
(Don’t know if links show up here, so if this doesn’t work, just go to the Curious About Dreamhost section of the forum)
October 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
真够笨的了,无语
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
süper :)
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