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July 9th 2003 early evening
I’m not sure what Dreamhost is up to, but earlier today my site was featuring content from April. Of course, it was hard to see since the server was only reachable about one out of ten tries. I guess I was witnessing the recover option working through incremental backups or something. Now that things seem to have stabilized, I can get back to actively neglecting my site.

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#1
John
My condolences. My experience with third-party hosting, as you know, is less than stellar. The trouble is, you must decide if you want to put up with third-party nonsense, or if you want to lie awake at night thinking "what if one of my servers crashes... now?"

Your comment is timely. A friend of mine had his host's DNS frell his business web site's domain for about a week. They fixed that, only to break his personal web site's DNS. I had to use an actual telephone to tell him his email was down. (The horror!)
#2
John
s/<.?i>/_/g;
s/<.?b>/*/g;
#3
kellegous
Dreamhost has been, for the most part, very stable. They certainly have the systems in place to do these sort of things on a large scale. Unless you can get on a dedicated server, though, there is no guarding against a neighbor who is learning the trappings of poor CGI at the hands of some script-kiddie, who upon seizing control of this poor guy's account promptly sends off 50,000 spam emails and uploads 5TB of warez. Sort of like being in an apartment complex really, no matter how careful you are about unplugging your iron your chances of coming home and finding all your belongings tranformed into smoldering blobs stays about the same.

Sorry about those <b>'s and <i>'s, I've been meaning to fix that for a while.

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about kellegous.com

kellegous.com is the personal site of kelly norton, a designer and engineer living in Atlanta, Georgia. Kelly used to be a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab but graduated in the summer of 2006. Before that, he was the Senior VP of Technology Development for Connexxia, a small technology company in Atlanta. He now works as a Software Engineer for Google. (more…)

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