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the great site move of 2012
14 years ago
six years i was with dreamhost. six years.
and i can say it now - they've changed. they used to be good. they used to send out monthly newsletters with updates. tech support (up until about a year ago) would bend over backwards to help you. you needed something installed and it didn't go right? they'd hold your hand and walk you through it.
now they don't give a damn.
i suspect the real cause here is that with the mass exodus from godaddy, dreamhost got a LOT of inbound new customers. with this influx of new money, old accounts got the back burner. the shared servers got crammed full to overload. old accounts were told it was there fault and to buy a VPS, and dreamhost banked on their previous dialogue with those customers to be believed.
the way it used to be run, i'd have expected them to run out and buy new servers to accomodate their overload. not this. but to prove my point, they just had an enormous downtime across their whole network yesterday. hi ho overloady-o.
anyway, it appears the migration to haxar's server went off with only minor hitches. there's a little bit of an issue with sunyshore's cart admin interface that i'm sure can be cleared up. i think the wiki is still broken, but we might tackle that today. it really depends on haxar's free time, and since the body of things are operable at the moment there's no extreme rush.
the next big steps are
1- getting dreamhost to give me a refund. half will go to gin, half goes right back into the college loans fund.
2- working with
wolfwings to create the new code for inhuman's site!
changes. they a'comin.
and i can say it now - they've changed. they used to be good. they used to send out monthly newsletters with updates. tech support (up until about a year ago) would bend over backwards to help you. you needed something installed and it didn't go right? they'd hold your hand and walk you through it.
now they don't give a damn.
i suspect the real cause here is that with the mass exodus from godaddy, dreamhost got a LOT of inbound new customers. with this influx of new money, old accounts got the back burner. the shared servers got crammed full to overload. old accounts were told it was there fault and to buy a VPS, and dreamhost banked on their previous dialogue with those customers to be believed.
the way it used to be run, i'd have expected them to run out and buy new servers to accomodate their overload. not this. but to prove my point, they just had an enormous downtime across their whole network yesterday. hi ho overloady-o.
anyway, it appears the migration to haxar's server went off with only minor hitches. there's a little bit of an issue with sunyshore's cart admin interface that i'm sure can be cleared up. i think the wiki is still broken, but we might tackle that today. it really depends on haxar's free time, and since the body of things are operable at the moment there's no extreme rush.
the next big steps are
1- getting dreamhost to give me a refund. half will go to gin, half goes right back into the college loans fund.
2- working with
wolfwings to create the new code for inhuman's site!changes. they a'comin.
the hardest step may be getting my refund from dreamhost. we shall see...
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things seem to be going okay. aside from a hiccup with the wiki images (wikis and i have a long history of hatred towards one another) and the zencart admin interface, it's going good. dreamhost says they'll mail a check.
Cause really the only thing on there is the stellarmass site and my personal portfolio site that nobody looks at XD