For those visiting the site and getting 503’s, I’m sorry. I seriously don’t know what is up. Checking logs I’m not getting a lot fo traffic, Dreamhost Status isn’t showing anything, but the load on the server has surged like crazy. It went from running a nice 128 MB to currently over 400MB quickly (at [...]
Welcome to Living in the Whine Country. New design going on, so please be patient and let me know on any issues.
OK, in case you didn’t know I’ve been paying for a virtual server through dreamhost, and generally been happy except for now worrying I make enough to pay the MONTHLY hosting bill (yes it was nice to forget about it till yearly). So I started looking around to see who is offering what, and truthfully. [...]
Mind these shell commands are more for those who have shell access to their domains and are having to deal with upgrading many WordPress installs or are just wanting to be lazy. If you look at it, you’ll see its very simplistic, and I didn’t do “garbage collection.” In otherwords I left the install files [...]
…and want something more to kick you over the edge? I recently switched this blog over to private servers from Dreamhost and they gave me some codes to allow friends (or acquaintances) to get a few extras if they sign up and use a special one time code.
* They will get four [...]
I’ve been hosting with Dreamhost for a good long while, and they have been doing their bit to be a green host for a while (meaning this blog is sorta green if not in content).
Heck here is how Dreamhost put it:
DreamHost is carbon neutral. We’ve calculated the impact of everything that DreamHost uses and leaves [...]
Continue reading about Oh yeah… Earth Day and this blog, or why don’t all hosts try.
I had been offering a $97 off coupon for Dreamhost (My main host) for the past couple years. Well I got a heads up that they would be dropping the available discount I can give to only $50 starting next year. So if you had been wondering about starting an account, you might as well [...]
As the days go on I tend to pop up shell windows with tail running so I can follow the traffic on my web server(s). Well that was all fine and good, but it got really messy following many servers. Plus straight text wasn’t very pretty. Then Dougal Cambell pointed out a [...]
Continue reading about lol I’m a geek and a new toy for server admins
What do you get when you get a dozen of Dreamhost techs together? 12 different opinions on whats wrong. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what has been going on with all my sites, and I got everything from perhaps the server needed a reboot, another customer had re-away scripts, the filer [...]
Continue reading about Server Issues? Or problems with shared hosting
Just an FYI - Ijust got a note that my host has moved the blog from one host to another… in the hope of speeding up the site, and getting rid of the issues I’m sure you all have noticed. So if you get a timeout, that’s the fact the DNS hasn’t fully propagated.
Otherwise, let [...]
Now I’ve had issues with the site going down before, but these were weird. My traffic has actually started tapering off when Dreamhosts DNS load balancer went south. So though the servers where up, at times you couldn’t get to them (depending on your DNS cache). According the Dreamhost the issue was:
The problems regarding [...]
Continue reading about And the site was down… no it was up… no its down… wait we’re back up!
