DreamHost Blog

Dreamhost's blog post is a good read as well about Geocities history and crazy valuation http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/24/theyre-internet-history/

"If, because of this billing mistake, you somehow incurred some fees from your bank or credit card company, please let us know after tomorrow (today we are just replying to all 10,000+ billing messages with a generic explanation) and we'll do our best to make it right for you." http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/

Some interesting background - Ceph and Inktank have roots in DreamHost. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2012/05/04/our-babys-all-grown-up/

Ugh. I suggest reading "Ina May Gaskin has blood on her hands" (http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2012/05/ina-may-gaskin-has-blood-on-he… At home births have caused deaths and brain damage that could easily be avoided in a hospital. The article hand waves these away by saying deaths caused by unnecessary surgery aren't scrutinized. To that, I say "then show it to us", because we can readily see the harm in at home births: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2012/03/09/wren-jones-2/ http://skepticalob.blogspot.com http://hurtbyhomebirth.blogspot.com

I'm not a customer but I noticed Dreamhost who do domains were publicly opposing Sopa in November: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2011/11/22/dont-drop-the-soap-drop-sopa/

I have been using Dreamhost for years and I am very happy. And it is against SOPA http://blog.dreamhost.com/2011/11/22/dont-drop-the-soap-drop-sopa/

Heck, you think that's heart attack inducing? How about the DreamHost case in which they typed the wrong year in their billing code; charged many of their users for an extra year of service, to the tune of $7.5 million: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/ http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/16/the-aftermath/ http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/17/the-final-update/

You should pull a Dreamhost and out this site. They are dishonest and should be called out. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/04/web-hostings-dirty-laundry/

Reminds me of this DreamHost Blog post on the web hosting industries so-called reviews: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/04/web-hostings-dirty-laundry/

That's called "over-selling" - its a pretty common model amongst any resource intensive businesses, which reminded me of a blog entry on the Dreamhost blog where Josh Jones makes a connection between the recent finance market debacle and over-selling: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/10/22/how-to-make-money/ Edit: the blog post is meant for light reading

I think the light-hearted (whoops! we screwed up!) tone is the absolute wrong one to take. Have you seen some of the comments? The over billing mess caused a lot of damage to their reputation. It wouldn't be a big deal, but refunds from an overcharge can take several weeks. If they charged someone's checking account, that's bad news. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/

> "Ruby is a language that moves very, very quickly." and later > "This makes sense from a system administration perspective, but it's a huge pain when you're trying to do Ruby development" It's a developer's world. Having been a Rails programmer working on some internals projects in the company that I used to work, I like both Ruby and Rails. But now I'm' working as an operations guy (ie, a sysadmin) in a new company, we came short of adopting redmine and maybe opening the road for more ruby and rails software to be used, we already use puppet and so every sysadmin now knows ruby, so it would be good to include some more ruby to internal use, but it was just a pain in the ass to maintain the rails-based infrastructure, in both Debian and CentOS, the distributions that we use. Fedora and Arch is not used in the servers, so it cannot be used. This is old, and just touches one aspect of the problems (shared hosting, which I do not deal with), but it does have some good rants, specially the point 2 of "How it could be better": http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/07/how-ruby-on-rails-could-be-much-b…