It was me, I broke Dreamhost
Ah, bollocks – I broke Dreamhost. I did a thing the other day to allow a little longer PHP execution time for a cron job. However, it didn’t seem to be working, and the cron job kept failing, so I tried to remove the mods I’ve made.
But all of this coincided with Dreamhost experiencing massive networking issues. Those guys never learn, do they? They constantly make same mistakes and end up bringing down however many thousands of sites they host.
So, although I’m pretty sure that I didn’t cause the problem, it makes it bloody hard to troubleshoot whenever there are larger issues affecting Dreamhost sites. Bummer.
admin 4:22 am on November 24, 2009 Permalink
Ah, I finally worked it out – it was a .htaccess rule that I failed to delete whenever I rolled back the changes to the custom php.ini file. It’s this kind of dumbass mistake that makes me worry about my ability to be doing this kind of work!