Dreamhost: The joke that kills

[giza]

[baachus]$ telnet baachus.dreamhost.com 80
Trying 208.113.188.26...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Now, Dreamhost manages thousands and thousands of sites. I would imagine that they have a fairly automated system for provisioning websiting, writing Apache configuration files, and the like. I imagine that they would also have a standardized OS install and configuration that is deployed across their machines, along with standardized packages for Apache, PHP, and similar web-based products.

So how do you screw something like this up?

Maybe I'm imagining too much about Dreamhost.

(Yes taral, I submitted a ticket this time)

Comments

[taral.livejournal.com]

Yay. :D

[jaesharp.livejournal.com]

Eh, sometimes heisenbugs creep into any installation like that, especially ones of dreamhost's size. Your right in that someone's pager should be going off when stuff like that happens. I was a dreamhost customer for months (running rails apps) until I outgrew them and I hadn't had any issues as serious as this so I guess the problems are hit and miss. However, you're not alone.

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

Do you have a site with them?