Bad Dreams:
Apparently, Dreamhost has shut down all of the web properites of Mr. John Halcyon Styn, a fine chap and a friend. Mr. Styn, the Webby Award-winning creator of Cockybastard.com, Prehensile.com and several others (none of which I can link to of course because they’ve been shut down) has had his service yanked because someone reported him to SpamCop, a service fine in theory but, as this case amply demonstrates, lousy in execution. It’s now easier than ever to accuse someone of spamming and have their kill-a-mosquito-with-a-bazooka hosting service turn them off.
Since most of us can’t afford to or don’t know how to run servers on our own, we are utterly dependent on these folk to keep our projects in public view. If this is the knee-jerk way they dishonor that contract, then I propose we take our business elsewhere.
And in the meantime, I suggest we email Dreamhost and vouch for Mr. Styn’s character. I have been on his mailing list for over a year now and have never once received anything I didn’t ask for.
Update: All things Styn are back up online. Glad we didn’t have to start throwing eggs.