Bet you didn’t even notice we were gone.
So anyway, Kelly at dreamhost fat-fingered the firewall and locked out a half-million customers, which wasn’t a big deal to me, but did lead me to head over to dreamhoststatus.com and have some fun snarking in the comments at all the whiny bastards who claim to be losing a zillion dollars a minute every time their nine buck a month shared web hosting hiccups, and posting little haikus:
my blog’s five readers
yearn for my half-assed ramblings
dreamhost strikes again
Just another exciting Friday nite Saturday morning at Archenemy HQ.
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I wonder, if you were someone like Dooce or Kottke who doesn’t have a job and relies on their blog for income, what the legal situation would be in a hosting outage. I’d guess there’s something in the fine print that says you can’t sue your host for loss of ad revenue…but who knows.
Well, I guess the idea here is, if you’re getting all your income from a webhosting account, you pay the bucks required to get hosting that’s as reliable as possible, and you think seriously about redundancy. You don’t run your business off 30 cents-a-day shared hosting and complain like a bitchy teenager when uptime drops down to 99.98%. I’m sure liability is covered in the terms of service, and that you’d have better luck suing the government because a traffic jam on their roads made you late to your mcjob, costing you an hour of minimum wage money.
If dreamhost was going to, say, credit its customers for the downtime, they’d only have knocked 1.3 cents off my bill. Hardly worth the time to go to the status thread and write a haiku…