It’s our birthday too! Google turns 7 today, we turn 8! Too bad we didn’t think of making yet another search engine back in 1997. Oh well, we’re not complaining toooo loudly. To celebrate we’ve made a bunch of changes: * Unlimited domains and sub-domains on all hosting plans! * Domain registrations are now $9.95/year [...]
We use a lot of IPs. Over 14,000 currently, with more and more every day. Fortunately, there are a lot out there (over 4 billion, even before IPv6), so we really aren’t in any great danger of running out. Except we are! You see, even though there theoretically are 4 billion IP addresses, it isn’t [...]
EVDO laptops do not. Yesterday Verizon announced that Lenovo (aka IBM Thinkpads), HP, and I believe it was Dell, are going to make laptops with built-in connectivity to Verizon’s EVDO 3G network (1.5Mbs wherever there’s cell phone coverage in major cities)! Sony also has a laptop out right now with Cingular’s EDGE network built-in… which [...]
Okay, this isn’t the REAL post-mortem. But we thought we’d post a few sort of interesting tidbits from Monday: Video immediately after being evacuated. (13.7MB avi) (Just kidding around… please don’t be offended!) Video of our servers without power. (1.2MB mov) (Boring) Video of powering our servers back on! (417KB mov) One particularly tasty voicemail. [...]
Right now outside our window they’re unloading an “aggreko diesel rent-a-generator”. This is to get the generators up to N+1 again while they repair the last one that’s still being cranky. Dun dun dun…
Just a reminder… we’ll be sending in our matching-your-donation thing for Katrina soon. So far we’ve received $11,612.09 from 198 contributors, meaning we’ll be donating at least $23,124.18 to the Red Cross. So, if you’re a DreamHost customer, time is running out to contribute (double) to a real disaster via our “Home > Charity” area. [...]
Thought we’d break up the monotony and throw up a little post about something positive! We’ve just added a “One-Click Install” of the new Gallery 2.0, the MOST popular open-source website photo gallery software THERE IS! Give it a try at our “Goodies > One-Click Installs” area right now! (Keep in mind it’s a big [...]
Oker doke, things are back to normal! An obscure config option on the router was set (it was showing up when you’d, say, “sh ru”) but apparently wasn’t doing anything and it was causing lots of work to be sent to the CPU instead of just being handled in hardware. It was obscure enough to [...]
The router is happier, Cisco support is helping. Ironically, it seems that netflow (a protocol for traffic analysis, which we’ve been using to help figure out what might be going wrong) might be part of the problem. And I think I mentioned this in a comment on another article, but amidst all the other stuff [...]
Just an update.. we’re still working on the router, we’ve even brought in an outside network consultant and have been on with Cisco support and it’s still mysterious. Just keeping people updated.. there won’t be any more updates about the packet loss until we’ve fixed it (at which point, we’ll update)..