Comments on: …and we’re back! http://blog.archenemy.org/2008/03/08/fun-with-dreamhost/ rum, bloggery & the lash Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:25:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dff http://blog.archenemy.org/2008/03/08/fun-with-dreamhost/#comment-1302 dff Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:10:06 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=1248#comment-1302 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... 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…

]]> By: erica http://blog.archenemy.org/2008/03/08/fun-with-dreamhost/#comment-1301 erica Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:53:30 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=1248#comment-1301 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. 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.

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