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You probably didn’t even notice, but this site is now being hosted at DreamHost. My main purpose for moving is stability. My server at home hasn’t been acting too well lately. When it gets too warm...
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Hosted Gmail, or “Gmail for your domain”, is sweet. It provides the ability to use the Gmail interface with your domains email. So, I go to my hosted Gmail and I can send/receive email at the...
View ArticleDreamhost Issues
This site hasn’t been accessible for a while this morning. Dreamhost appears to be having some issues with a fileserver that keeps crashing. All seems to be good now, but it sounds like they’ve been...
View ArticleDreamhost and World War III
The Dreamhost outage yesterday is now resolved. Four separate issues all came to light at roughly the same time, taking a good portion of Dreamhosts services offline. I personally assumed the Dreamhost...
View ArticleDreamhost: Generators Caught Fire
OK, Dreamhost has had two outages due to power outages this week. Lots and lots of people are mad. Luckily this is the only site I host with Dreamhost, and this site doesn’t really matter so it doesn’t...
View ArticleDreamhost Has A Slow Network
The issues I spoke about in Poor Site Performance probably aren’t related to any content within this site, as I had previously thought. It’s more likely related to the shabby state of Dreamhosts...
View ArticleMore Dreamhost Network Issues
Dreamhost is recovering from yet another network outage. Apparently a switch had issues and they had to take a few servers off that switch. Supposedly the servers were moved over to another temporary...
View ArticleHorrible Repsonse Time
Longren.org has been really, really slow the last week or so. This site has never been this slow to load, even when I was hosting it out of my house on my cable connection. Granted, I didn’t get the...
View ArticleMoving Servers At Dreamhost
After making this post, I submitted a support ticket to Dreamhost. Justin at Dreamhost replied back with a pretty solid sounding solution: I did notice a few busy sites on the apaches for 2 of your...
View ArticleDreamHost Outage
DreamHost experienced some pretty significant downtime yesterday. It started with network maintenance. When they brought a switch back online, it was missing configuration files. Seems kinda silly for...
View ArticleMoving To FlipHost
This site now sits on a server at FlipHost. I got a Storage250 server from them and added some RAM, and here we are. It's really a pretty nice setup. Pretty much everything I've setup I've done...
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