Comments on: Dreamhost: Generators Caught Fire http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/ Certified & Decorated Sat, 05 May 2012 19:31:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: kunde http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-482240 kunde Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:15:14 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-482240 Lots of incredibly good reading here, many thanks! I had been searching on yahoo when I observed your article, I’m going to add your feed to Google Reader, I look forward to additional from you. Lots of incredibly good reading here, many thanks! I had been searching on yahoo when I observed your article, I’m going to add your feed to Google Reader, I look forward to additional from you.

]]> By: More Dreamhost Network Issues at T. Longren http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-31858 More Dreamhost Network Issues at T. Longren Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:54:42 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-31858 [...] I always get a kick out of the angry comments that show up on the Dreamhost Status blog whenever a fairly widespread problem occurs. Of course, Dreamhost hasn’t had great reliability in the last few months. I feel bad for those trying to run a business with Dreamhost. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] I always get a kick out of the angry comments that show up on the Dreamhost Status blog whenever a fairly widespread problem occurs. Of course, Dreamhost hasn’t had great reliability in the last few months. I feel bad for those trying to run a business with Dreamhost. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

]]> By: Dreamhost Has A Slow Network at T. Longren http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-30896 Dreamhost Has A Slow Network at T. Longren Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:16:03 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-30896 [...] So, as you can see, they’re relating this to the downtime experienced a month or so back when a generator caught fire. Hopefully the work they do on this coming Monday will fix the issues we’ve been having. It’s getting real old, real quick. Couldn’t happen at a worse time too, this site is starting to grow by great leaps and bounds. Hopefully growth won’t be affected by this poor performance. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] So, as you can see, they’re relating this to the downtime experienced a month or so back when a generator caught fire. Hopefully the work they do on this coming Monday will fix the issues we’ve been having. It’s getting real old, real quick. Couldn’t happen at a worse time too, this site is starting to grow by great leaps and bounds. Hopefully growth won’t be affected by this poor performance. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

]]> By: Wordpress.com Is 1 Year Old at T. Longren http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-30165 Wordpress.com Is 1 Year Old at T. Longren Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:06:39 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-30165 [...] Unique To Longren.org: OK, I posted that on the Slackware Blog a little bit ago. This blog isn’t hosted at wordpress.com, but I’ve been blogging for about 6 months there with the Slackware Blog. There were issues when I initially started using wordpress.com, but after that it’s been more stable than Dreamhost has been lately. I can see myself using wordpress.com for a long time to come, at least to see what sort of new goodies they come out with in the future. And it’s a free WordPress hosting service, doesn’t get much better than that. [...] [...] Unique To Longren.org: OK, I posted that on the Slackware Blog a little bit ago. This blog isn’t hosted at wordpress.com, but I’ve been blogging for about 6 months there with the Slackware Blog. There were issues when I initially started using wordpress.com, but after that it’s been more stable than Dreamhost has been lately. I can see myself using wordpress.com for a long time to come, at least to see what sort of new goodies they come out with in the future. And it’s a free WordPress hosting service, doesn’t get much better than that. [...]

]]> By: Tyler http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-27932 Tyler Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:32:59 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-27932 David, I think you're one of the first people to "like" my blog. I tend to offend people, whether it be due to a tech post or a political post, people like to hate me. OK, OK, I may try to antagonize certain groups in certain posts, but it provides for entertaining comments. :) David, I think you’re one of the first people to “like” my blog. I tend to offend people, whether it be due to a tech post or a political post, people like to hate me. OK, OK, I may try to antagonize certain groups in certain posts, but it provides for entertaining comments. :)

]]> By: somebody http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-27921 somebody Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:37:30 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-27921 Yes - you have a point about datacentres inevitably failing. But doing a search on Google shows that Dreamhost had an incredibly similar incident last year, and the fact that there have been two major power outages in the last week is simply unacceptable. They posted information on their update pages that engineers had identified the problems, and had replaced potentially faulty components of the redundant power system. I'm happy to accept that equipment fails sometime - but failing after they took action to prevent it happening again simply isn't right. Failing twice in a week, and less than a year after the previous failure where assurances were made that it should "never" happen again is just ridiculous. http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/13/more-on-dreamhost-and-media-temple-power-outage/ Yes – you have a point about datacentres inevitably failing. But doing a search on Google shows that Dreamhost had an incredibly similar incident last year, and the fact that there have been two major power outages in the last week is simply unacceptable. They posted information on their update pages that engineers had identified the problems, and had replaced potentially faulty components of the redundant power system.

I’m happy to accept that equipment fails sometime – but failing after they took action to prevent it happening again simply isn’t right. Failing twice in a week, and less than a year after the previous failure where assurances were made that it should “never” happen again is just ridiculous. http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/13/more-on-dreamhost-and-media-temple-power-outage/

]]> By: David http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-27920 David Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:03:41 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-27920 Oddly, I like your blog. One thing folks who have been around of "top" datacenters know is that if they haven't ever failed, or haven't failed in at least 5 years, they're about to fail. It just happens. 365 Main is a great datacenter, built like one of the best I've seen, and it failed. A stupid alarm monitor got faulty and somehow was able to create an Emergency Power Off situation. Nothing was actually wrong, ironically. The Westin building in Seattle holds a bunch of tennents and it lost power. Equinix in Chicago has had a major outage last year or so which then got worse when the generators flunked. Datacenters in NYC after 9/11 either failed over to generator only to have their HVAC get clogged, run out of fuel, or a myriad of other problems that happen when you run on GenSets for a long period of time. Bottom line, every datacenter loses power. I'd rather be in a datacenter that just lost power than one that hasn't in seven years, even though, and is proof in the above, statistically I'm no better off. :-) Actually, I'd like to be in a bunch of datacenters, anycasted. Oh wait. :-) Oddly, I like your blog.

One thing folks who have been around of “top” datacenters know is that if they haven’t ever failed, or haven’t failed in at least 5 years, they’re about to fail. It just happens.

365 Main is a great datacenter, built like one of the best I’ve seen, and it failed. A stupid alarm monitor got faulty and somehow was able to create an Emergency Power Off situation. Nothing was actually wrong, ironically.

The Westin building in Seattle holds a bunch of tennents and it lost power. Equinix in Chicago has had a major outage last year or so which then got worse when the generators flunked. Datacenters in NYC after 9/11 either failed over to generator only to have their HVAC get clogged, run out of fuel, or a myriad of other problems that happen when you run on GenSets for a long period of time.

Bottom line, every datacenter loses power. I’d rather be in a datacenter that just lost power than one that hasn’t in seven years, even though, and is proof in the above, statistically I’m no better off. :-)

Actually, I’d like to be in a bunch of datacenters, anycasted. Oh wait. :-)

]]> By: somebody http://www.longren.org/dreamhost-generators-caught-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-27885 somebody Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:03:11 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2186#comment-27885 Wow - I can't believe how quickly my comments are spreading across the internet. But seriously, these outages must be causing some financial damage to customers who are using Dreamhost's services for business purposes. Luckily I only host personal and non-profit websites on my account, so it doesn't really have a significant impact on me. In any case - two power outages in one week from a so called reputable datacentre is simply unacceptable, and compensation should definetely be on the cards. Wow – I can’t believe how quickly my comments are spreading across the internet. But seriously, these outages must be causing some financial damage to customers who are using Dreamhost’s services for business purposes. Luckily I only host personal and non-profit websites on my account, so it doesn’t really have a significant impact on me. In any case – two power outages in one week from a so called reputable datacentre is simply unacceptable, and compensation should definetely be on the cards.

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