Site Down

I think I might need to shop for a new web host. You probably didn’t notice, but our sites were down for about an hour this evening. Not just our sites, but all of DreamHost (660,000 + sites). This is the third time in about a month we’ve had a problem with them. Strange, because for the first 2 or 3 years I never had a problem. Even dreamhost.com was down tonight.

While the sites were down Chris and I had a good time laughing at the comments on their system status blog. According to the blog it was a typo that caused the system outage. So when I see comments like, “F-ing Loosers, take a typing class!” Ok, what is a looser? You mean loser, dumbass? Criticize a typo with a typo. Unless they were trying to be ironic, but I doubt it. I also liked a comment to fix DreamHost’s fat finger problem by buying some Bugles for their fingertips. I totally forgot about Bugles.

The looser comment reminded me of a stern letter I received from a customer’s attorney when I worked in Missouri. It was an overcharge claim that I was trying to dodge with a technicality in their contract and while it was crappy of us, we were within our right to deny it. Of course they were pissed and sent us a fiery letter but the really funny part was the last line… “We trust this matter will be handled WITH further delay (emphasis mine).” WITH further delay? Absolutely!! How long would you like me to sit on this? I think you meant WITHOUT further delay. I laughed so hard. It’s always good to proofread.

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