The hosting provider for apocryph.org, DreamHost, is experiencing a serious outage that has resulted in apocryph.org sucking serious wind and/or being completely offline. DH’s latest claim is a fix from their storage vendor will cure all ills, but this has been going on for a week now so it’s hard to imagine a QFE from a vendor will just make it vanish.

Anyway, I probably brought this down upon myself, since I went from fairly-cheap-but-still-shitty CI Host to considerably-cheaper DreamHost, based on the promise of ridiculous expanses of disk space and lavish transfer quotas. Of course, I probably should have asked myself how they could afford such generosity, but in the face of mind-boggling cheapness it’s hard to be objective.

Even though apocryph’s traffic numbers are asymptotic to zero it still really pisses me off to experience such a nasty outage. I wanted to work on my Drupal-to-Wordpress migration tool today, but the server hosting Drupal is so blasted even the shell is unusably slow. I’d threaten to pack up my shit and go to another host, but I don’t know where I’d go. I didn’t just pick DreamHost at random; they really due have insane disk and transfer quotas (I think I’m at 500GB and multiple terabytes of transfer, for something less than $20/mo), and as displeased as I’ve been with their reliability lately they have a much lower fail factor than the made-in-China discount hosts in the same price range.

Dammit, why can’t hosting be fast, good, AND cheap?