Apologies to anyone who couldn’t view my site yesterday afternoon and evening. My hosting company was hit by the power outages in Los Angeles; I wonder how long it took for that poor worker to get canned. Anyway, my host has a few UPSs and generators in their building (which is a data center for lots of things), but when the power went out, it turns out that the generators were overloaded by all the stuff in the building (belonging to my company and other companies) and so the generators went into safe mode and shut down. Thus, no website. It finally came back up for good around midnight last night.
While reading the status page and blog for my hosting company to figure out what was going on, I saw a lot of bitching and moaning from other people who host their sites with Dreamhost. A lot of complaints about lack of email, a lot of whining about why there was no backup power supply to the power supply, and even more complaints about the lack of status updates (which I totally forgive because, you know, if they’re writing status updates that means they’re not working on the problem). I have to say, I thought it was a lot of complaining about nothing. Sure, it was inconvenient to have everything go down, but good lord people — Dreamhost gives us great hosting packages and great service for an even greater price. I’ve been with them for 2 years and this is the first time I’ve ever had extended downtime; my old company was down at least once a week. You get what you pay for, and with Dreamhost, you get far more than what you pay for.
I still love you, Dreamhost!