Now I’ve had issues with the site going down before, but these were weird. My traffic has actually started tapering off when Dreamhosts DNS load balancer went south. So though the servers where up, at times you couldn’t get to them (depending on your DNS cache). According the Dreamhost the issue was:
The problems regarding [...]
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If you’re wondering why the site seems slow, its because I also have a Woot-Off checker on the same server and Dreamhost doesn’t seem to like the strain that well, but so far its holding. The Woot-Off Checker is ajax so the requests aren’t that bad… but there are a lot of them.
The main [...]
We were just informed one hour ago from our building management that an emergency maintenance window is scheduled for this Saturday morning, Sunday morning, February 25th, at 12:01AM PST. This maintenance window involves taking our entire building’s power offline for approximately 3 hours. The word from the building:
It was discovered by [...]
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Dreamhost is going to be moving my database to a new server since I’ve been having issues with the current one. So if you get errors, please be patient. The server will be back in roughly 20 minutes. Hopefully they will schedule this during the middle of the night. But more [...]
ACFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are now working on the Micronation of Sealand.
Recently it was made clear that this country is for sale. To make sure the owners will be kopimistic and that the country won’t be governed by [...]
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I was just realizing as I was renewing my domains that it’s been a year since I started blogging. And saying it’s been an interesting year is putting it mildly.
I redesigned TheHavens.net from a family website to a blog January 11th.
But I was warned that a friend was quiting his job with Fullsystem [...]
In case you saw the multiple post, and/or you’ve tried reaching the site and got a blank page and/or got asked to download a php file. Dreamhost (my hoster) has had some issues. Supposedly they have been dealt with, but let me know via Meebo or email if something comes up.
NOTE: If the [...]
We launched Google Apps for Your Domain at the end of August, and since then we’ve been getting great feedback from people all over. Organizations from Thailand, Argentina, and even our neighbors in Palo Alto have set up private-label Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and spiffy customizable start pages for their custom domains. We think [...]
Well I wasn’t alone in this, but it’s nice all the same.
1. It’s our birthday? Double the bandwidth, tenify the disk!
So, what feature WAS I alluding to last month anyway? Could it that it’s now been NINE years since we registered dreamhost.com, and to celebrate we’ve upped everybody’s disk and bandwidth, AGAIN, wellll beyond [...]
For the last few days (ok, off and on for the last 2 weeks). I’ve been fighting a case of the slows with the site. I’ve made sure it wasn’t the Wordpress install, the mySQL database or something strange in a plugin (or widget). And I’ve also been doing alittle admining in [...]
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