Attention: Hosting providers

Submitted by rernst on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 3:35am

Every time I recommend you, I put my professional reputation on the line. If you screw up badly or your site goes down just as I recommend you, I look bad as well.

I know it's not reasonable to require 'Five 9's' of uptime, but whenever anything happens with a host, it always seems to be at the worst possible time. Cosmic Karma, maybe?

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Submitted by G (not verified) on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 4:14pm.

Did you read that whole DreamHost story off their blog? Pretty hilarious, in some ways. Errors compounding errors...
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/16/the-aftermath/
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/17/the-final-update/
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/25/five-fun-facts-for-friday/

Submitted by ws (not verified) on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 4:21pm.

That's why I linked to them with the text 'screwed up badly'.

I was one of the lucky ones. My account was billed three times, but the charges never hit my credit card. Still, getting billed for $400 in one shot is pretty scary.

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