DreamHost

	“	akensai Says: Just lost a $10,000 business client, outage right when I’m explaining how uptime is indefinite. Good job.	„
	— Excellent uptime comrades!

	“	Scott Says: OMG! I just lost a $100K client! Thanks Dreamhost!	„
	—And not a single fuck was given that day

Dreamhost

Typical Dreamhost worker; she's looks worse than girlvinyl

Dreamhost.com Webhosting company often pimped by girlvinyl and ghettofinger . Users include scarlet, twid jeremyjx, packetgrinder and imaybeparanoid. Provided services for girlvinyl.com, encyclopediadramatica, kittenwar, bsdiva.com, earlegorgo.com, Elloell and others. It is superior to Godaddy, but then again, what isn't?

Note: DreamHost Does Not Obey The Law

brb ddos

Oh noes, we have a major outage! The experts at Dreamhost tech support had the fun spending more than 4 hours trying to mitigate attacks from their own systems. Due to this, people have lost money and several contracts from this

	“	Update 4:40pm PST: Our network engineers rebooted the core router at our LAX facilities but our providers are still flapping. It appears that the LAX facility may be stabilized but we’re experiencing high load on our core routers as a result of all the BGP flapping. We are still investigating the issue but current traffic patterns possibly indicate an attack on our network. -John	„
	—FLAP FLAP FLAP

For those who don't know, flapping occurs when a router alternately advertises a destination network via one route then another (or as unavailable, and then available again) in quick sequence. A closely related term is interface flapping where an interface on a router has a hardware failure that will cause the router to announce it alternately as "up" and "down".

As of the time of this edit, they're getting hit again.

Quotes

	“	Rick Says: Maybe this was just a practice run for these guys	„
	—some dumbass who thinks Iran might be behind it

	“	GregNotCraig Says: Man, you people are a whiny bunch. I’ve been with DH since 2004. thick n thin. Ups and downs. Shit like this happens. Remember the Amazon servers last week and how many “major players” were dead in the water? If you lost a [insert random thousand dollar amount here] client because of the down time…you should be savvy enough to tell them that there is NO such thing as 100% uptime. Suck it up, you fraking crybabies.	„
	—Someone not being a whining cunt about the attacks

See Also

• DDOS
• Failure