Gordaen's Blog

After continuous frustration with Dreamhost, I’ve moved to Slicehost. Dreamhost has been extremely slow about confirming the registration transfer, but I modified the DNS records to try to force the sites to be served from my new location. Above is a chart showing the response time at gordaen.com for a week; can you guess at [...]

I guess I really ought to just move all my sites away from Dreamhost. The last major issue was a typo that accidentally over-charged their customers by several million dollars. This time, they have shown that a typo can kill their entire datacenter, causing over an hour of downtime, but at least they realized that [...]

I made a few changes to the blog, the most notable of which is the ability to preview comments and use AJAX to submit them. Hopefully I didn’t break anything… In the process of making these changes I also took the time to look at the stats for the blog to see if anything was [...]

I’ve been with DreamHost for a little over a year and a half, and my opinion of them has swayed back and forth quite a bit during that time. In the summer of 2006, DH (and DH’s customers) went through hell. I kept pretty cool about the whole issue, despite that there were many problems [...]

I’m back in state. It’s too late to post much now, but I should have updates in the next day or two.