Gizmoojo!

Now asI am writing this, Dreamhost , one of the fasting glowing hosting company (also currently my webhost) is having really bad server troubles. It all begun 3 days ago when I woke up to Gizmoojo.com having the dreadful RAILS APPLICATION ERROR. It appears their trouble started with one of their file server screeching to an deadbeat. So their tech support having been working nonstop over the weekend, and even slept in the server room, to get the server back to life again.

So as you know, since my server is down, I decided to exercise my GIMP skills a little and conjured up this great Dreamhost Ads

But it appears Dreamhost is having a really bad network failure within their own networks. www.dreamhost.com is down and so are the wikis and the control panel for users. This sounds really bad… Early they had advised their customers to backup their data… but isn’t that their job to? but don’t they back up these server?

Here is what on dreamhoststatus.com now…. I think they will be getting tons of emails from their customers real soon.. althought mine have been ignored once today already.. usually they do reply back in a timely manner….

The problems are worse..

July 17, 2006 at 5:03 pm PST by Josh

It seems like the problems are more widespread with our network than just our internal stuff.

We’re actively working on it, and apologize for any possible downtime this may be causing customer services.

We will update here as soon as we know more!

Posted in Network Outages

Panel and Wiki down..

July 17, 2006 at 3:42 pm PST by Josh

We’re having some problems right now with our firewall for public websites we have that connect to our private internal databases.. we hope to get it fixed soon, but in the meantime, https://panel.dreamhost.com/ and http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ (and http://mailboxes.anydomainwehost.com/) are down.

We’re doing our best to get it all better ASAP!

Posted in System Outages

This is not my first time that I have been having problems with Dreamhost. But this time its consider the worst of it all. Its almost 3 days now since they declared on the Dreamhost Status blog that they are having trouble with one of the file servers. Ok I can understand that, hardware do fail and I have no problem with that. But what I don’t understand about their customer support is that although the file server issue is sort of, kind of resolved but its really not. The hostmachine is going really really really slow slow slow and what I mean by that is its really slow. Logging into the machine thru SSH and then do a “ls”, the directory listings would come back after 20-30 secs.

So meanwhile since I cannot do anything with the shared server that I have paid for, one year in full, I let my creative GIMP skills let lose. What are nice marketing campaign this would be for Dreamhost, the support team that are sometimes deep in their dream from their Party All Night Long. Thank you Dreamhost! I had fun making this. 8^)

Update… Ok Dreamhost.. I feel better now after laughing and rolling on the floor staring at this great masterpiece for some time……