{"id":7018,"date":"2009-04-23T14:29:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T21:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:11:48","slug":"dreamhost-does-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/23\/dreamhost-does-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamhost Does Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4191,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dreamhost.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260304045550\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.dreamhost.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 02:17:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 23:19:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 07:41:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:02:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 17:12:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 17:12:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?s=dreamhost&amp;submit_button=Search\" title=\"eclecticism: search for 'dreamhost'\">occasionally groused<\/a> about the hosting service I get with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/\" title=\"Dreamhost\">Dreamhost<\/a>, I wanted to be sure to mention when things go <em>right<\/em>, instead of only when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>For a few months, the server that my account was set up on, and which hosts all three domains under my control, was being tweaky, resulting in sporadic downtime. I&#8217;d been building up a small library of downtime reports in my support page with Dreamhost, when last month, things took a turn for the worse&#8230;and then, soon afterward, for the better. Of course, I didn&#8217;t really know about the &#8220;for the worse&#8221; part until I got the news of the &#8220;for the better&#8221; side of things.<\/p>\n<p>The last time my site went down, when I submitted the support request notifying Dreamhost of the downtime, they replied relatively quickly, letting me know that the server I was on had become &#8220;unresponsive,&#8221; and they were working on getting this back up and running. About half an hour later, my sites came back up, and I didn&#8217;t think much more of it. Until the next day, when I got the following&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This is just a note to let you know that we&#8217;ve moved your account to a new server! We apologize for the lack of notice, but this was an emergency move as a perfomance and stability measure.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the server I&#8217;d been on had gone <em>seriously<\/em> downhill, and had to be replaced, necessitating moving my account to new hardware (and hopefully all the other occasional downtime I&#8217;d had was due to the developing hardware issues, and I won&#8217;t get those again). Most of the rest of the message was covering anything I might need to do to ensure that everything worked as it should, and as it turns out, I didn&#8217;t really need to do much of anything, as the transition was seamless. Then, at the end of the note&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;again, we really apologize for the abrupt nature of this move! To try and make up for it a bit, we&#8217;ve also set your account to now have unlimited disk and bandwidth, forever!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ooooh. See those last few words? <em>That&#8217;s<\/em> nice to see. &#8220;Unlimited disk and bandwidth, forever!&#8221; No worries about storing large files (not that I tend to do that), no worries about surcharges on the (very) off chance that I get Slashdotted or Dugg. Just keep paying my yearly bill, and I&#8217;m set.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamhost, I&#8217;ve had issues with you from time to time, but this? This is good. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooooh. See those last few words? _That&#8217;s_ nice to see. &#8216;Unlimited disk and bandwidth, forever!&#8217; No worries about storing large files (not that I tend to do that), no worries about surcharges on the (very) off chance that I get Slashdotted or Dugg. Just keep paying my yearly bill, and I&#8217;m set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043],"tags":[13,25],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-life","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}