Sweet uptime
Yeah, we’ve been down for a few days now. A RAID failure on the database server at DreamHost, plus some corrupt backups, plus nine hundred other support requests, equals serious downtime. Add to that the fact that their offsite status page had information about at least four other failures/outages this week—before the status page itself went offline—and you have a pretty lousy week for DreamHost.
It’s been frustrating for me, not because the downtime has hurt me badly (it was just the dsandler.org tables; my other sites, including toastycode, were unaffected) but because I’ve been such a big fan of DreamHost and have recommended it to plenty of folks. It’s embarrassing to have your blog offline for a few days when a simple DB restore is all you need. On the other hand, it was an honest mistake; they restored what they thought was the correct table dump, and my plea for help was at the bottom of nearly a thousand open tickets.
I guess the lesson here is if you don’t like stress, don’t work at a major hosting company.