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Connectivity problems

Posted by simonov on 26 February 2007

Sorry about the slow response speeds and database connectivity problems hereabouts. Our webhost, DreamHost, has been having a lot of persistent problems following a “scheduled” power outage over the weekend. They swear it will all be resolved soon.

Dreamhost is a great webhost service based in Brea, CA, not far from Guntards.net World HQ, and they hardly ever lie to us. In fact, according to their About page, they seem like potentional guntard material themselves:

DreamHost is owned by its employees. We’re a tight-knit family and we’re not looking to sell out to investors or media conglomerates or other gigantic companies who care more about the bottom line than providing solid web hosting.

Believe us, there’s plenty of those in the hosting industry already and you probably don’t want to get mixed up with them.

The guys who work at those companies are crazy. They earn sales commissions. They dress in ‘business casual’ attire. Some of them might even wear suits! They’ll toss around fancy words like ‘monetizing’ and ‘ROI’. They attend hosting ‘conferences’.

They wear cologne.

Wearing cologne in the DreamHost office is grounds for a firing. Or at least a solid 8 hours of harassment.

Plus, Guntards.net readers from Pink Pistols might be interested to learn that, from the look of their employee mix, it’s a real sausage-fest over at DreamHost.

So hopefully everything will be resolved soon.

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