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DreamHost Data Center Move is a Nightmare
December 9th, 2009
Web hosting provider DreamHost has given many customers nightmares during recent weeks after denial of service attacks, outages and network failure prompted by data center migration.
Following days of disruption, on December 8 and 9, the provider has had repeated denial off service attacks that have only been resolved by disabling the originating domain.
Cisco engineers have also been in to the new data center to deal with router problems.
DreamHost said on November 30 that ’just about’ all the problems were fixed and were back to normal – which turned out to be a hope rather than a promise.
In previous blog posts, DreamHost explained the company had “completed the mother of all DreamHost data center moves from the Net2EZ facility to Alchemy Communications’ data center, in which DreamHost has bought a large equity stake.
In response to a customer email, DreamHost put the outages down to a Shared Hosting hardware upgrade going wrong and customer support at a loss of how to put the problem right. [Read the rest]
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