@penguinwrangler said in US Department of Justice Seeking IP Addresses of All 1.3m Visitors to DisruptJ20 Website:

@scottalanmiller said in US Department of Justice Seeking IP Addresses of All 1.3m Visitors to DisruptJ20 Website:

@penguinwrangler said in US Department of Justice Seeking IP Addresses of All 1.3m Visitors to DisruptJ20 Website:

@scottalanmiller While I think the scope of the request is a bit broad and has privacy concerns for other people not related to those arrested. I do not believe that there is an issue with the government trying to see if the people that were arrested did go to that website and did plan. It changes what charges and what sentencing can be rendered so it is pertinent to the case. I believe it should be a more narrow request than what it was.

Right, a narrow, appropriate request would be for the court case. This is not what a warrant related to the court case would look like.

I also know though you always ask for the moon and then settle for what you really want.

If they get the chance to do that. And you don't ask for the moon when it makes it into a court case exposing your department for corruption and an attack on the American people and the appearance of attempting to stifle free speech in order to promote a political agenda.

The primary issue with DreamHost is they hit capacity, a lot, because their unlimited everything often causes people to fill up drives, put in thousands of domains for their crappy WordPress "blogs," and the system itself does not automatically scale, new machines have to be set up and sometimes accounts moved around. Furthermore their front end does not communicate well with the backend so if there are these problems accounts are pushed to setup anyway and problems like @scottalanmiller's are created.

It's certainly an infrastructure problem, however since it's more of a classic shared host infrastructure it's going to take a lot of time, money, and effort to move it to something more scalable. They certainly seem to be moving in that direction, but when you have who knows how many people signing up per day and beating the absolute hell out of your systems, it's a long road.

Overall I've used them for about 10 years (personal stuff, DNS [yes, I'm serious]) and they're pretty great compared to other shared web hosts, especially when it comes to trust worthiness and user care, in other words I'd think DreamHost would feed my dogs if I asked them to, however I don't think Hostgator would -- if that analogy makes sense.

Here's an interesting read http://inlinehostblogger.com/hostgator-vs-bluehost-vs-dreamhost/

Edit: Now, I'm thinking this might be a sponsored/paid review after reading all of it.