I still host a couple web-sites at dreamhost.com for projects not directly related to my primary business. So, while the sites are not really critical to me they are critical to the businesses they support. It looks like the two sites will be down for the better part of two days. All I can think is pretty much unreal!
If you are thinking about hosting with them because they talk about being a ‘democratic workplace’ and being all happy and ‘green’ I would strongly suggest you look elsewhere. This is not the first time these sites have been down for an extended period of time and it’s why ColorMetrix.com, JimRaffel.com and ProofPass.com now all reside with a real hosting company.
So, for this current outage I guess the super geeks at dreamhost need to run extended hardware tests on file servers that my hosting plan depends upon. OK, makes sense….switch over to redundant hardware and restore from backups! Oh, that would require you to be a real hosting company and worry more about continuous service than how green or democratic your workplace is.
As you may have guessed, when my schedule allows these last two sites will move from dreamhost and I will be a happy man again. 🙂
If I save one person the frustration of dealing with dream(nightmares are a kind of dream)host.com this post will have been worthwhile.