The right way to do business
I have been a Dreamhost customer since 1999, and I only recall one significant outage over that entire period. Until the last couple of weeks. Things have definately gotten pretty ugly.
DreamHost Blog サ Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster..
One of the main reasons I like doing business with Dreamhost is that they are totally honest.
The fact of the matter is that in the world of computers. Things break. There will always be points of failure that are going to have catastrophic effects. (Routers and Power supply in particular)
We can mitigate these risks, but unless we own our own nuclear opwer plant, Urainum mine, Oil refinery, Highway , and dedicated lines to each household, these issues are always going to be beyond our control to one degree or another.
I am certianly going to stick it out! I trust Dreamhost's dilegence in trying to mitigate these risks, and I recongnize that any other provider Ichoose is going to be effected by the same issues at one point or another in their lifecycle.