Tech Memoir of a Web Developer

This morning I discovered that my websites were down again. That’s 3 times in the past two weeks that I’ve experienced service interruptions. I immediately emailed Dreamhost support about my “bad_httpd_conf” error. Ten hours later I received a phone call telling me that my service interruption was due to the fact that my plan had been switched to a more reliable server and the new DNS entries had not yet propagated. I didn’t buy it. Well an hour later I received an email stating that they discovered a configuration error on this new machine. Not good. Their only saving grace at this point is that they are friendly and respond pretty quickly to support requests. I came so close to switching to MediaTemple and their (dv) dedicated-virtual plan. But I know that MediaTemple has been having a lot of problems with their infrastructure as well. So I’m sticking with DreamHost for now. Hopefully this Dream will get better from this point on.