Ramble On

Someone call Congress. I’m sure that the Radish could be subpoenaed.

p.s. Our next project to be called “Dokonjo Daikon”

p.p.s. Yes this is an old story (BBC’s timestamp was February 3) Even better - raw, uncensored pictures and a picture book

I really shouldn’t complain about dreamhost support anymore

(Rafe - who’s hard at work coding with the first hard deadline of the year, well second, sorta)

Jay: when do you want faq.extension.org to repoint to heureka? NCSU’s DNS update schedule is a little odd it seems, it’s 4 times during business hours, and I just want to make sure it gets scheduled right
Rafe: lets try to set it up tomorrow
Rafe: even if we just put a static html page there that will be fine
Jay: whoops - you know - I don’t even have to wait for DNS
Jay: that was dumb of me
Jay: it’s on the same box!
Rafe: oh yeah
Jay: so just about anytime you want it repointed, just let me know
Jay: dumb
Jay: sory
Rafe: no trouble
Jay: I’ll go run traceroute now or something
Rafe:

And now I have “Spinning Wheel” from Blood Sweat and Tears stuck in my head (”What goes up… Must come Down”)

Dear Dreamhost. I forgive you. I promise not to send the City Manager from Tuttle, OK, your open job listings.

merely loading this post page is quantitatively 20 times faster. That happens when your load average on the server is not:

> load average: 9.17, 11.10, 10.19

I still for the life of me can’t believe I sent that to Dreamhost support and they told me to run traceroute.

You know, when I tell you that your load averages on the server where my podunk wordpress sites are is consistently too high, and pointing out the output from ‘w’ where it was > 9 (and didn’t show you where it reached 14) - and how that’s causing problems, and how the wordpress “php timestamps” on things are 6-7 times higher than sites I run at work? And how I think you oversold the service, but at least find the problem user(s) causing the astronomical load averages and tell them to stop?

Yeah, please don’t tell me to run traceroute and give you the output from that.

Readers of my blog might have noticed a hiccup today while I shifted hosting providers from dreamhost to site5.com.

(and a repost of this article because I forgot to dump it out of the db at dreamhost after I posted it)