This site and IronManBloggingCompetition.com were up and down last night and early this morning due to DreamHost having some DNS problems with their load balancer vendor. Total downtime shouldn’t have exceeded more than two hours at most, but just to be safe I copied my May 23rd post over to my backup blog on Slashdot as soon as I noticed the problem (around 1:40 AM).

All in all, DH is a pretty good host. Their uptime is pretty decent — about 99.26% as of today. The only part of their service that really bugs me is that they have CPU usage limits. Thing is, they won’t tell you what the limit is. Based on my experience, it seems to be about 3,000 CPU seconds, but I think that varies depending on which server you’re hosted from. It’s kind of ridiculous that right now they’re giving me 243 GB of storage and 2.86 TB in monthly transfers, but only about an hour’s worth of cycles per day. And, of course, you can easily increase your storage and bandwidth allowances but the only way to get more CPU time is to move to dedicated hosting (which currently runs $395/month). Still, I’m pretty happy with what I’ve been getting for $7.92/month.

I have mixed feelings about last night’s Lost finale. On the one hand, Alex meeting Rousseau was cool, and I really liked the parts with Hugo running over that guy and Sawyer’s badassness (“That’s for takin’ the kid off the raft.”), which was rivaled by Mikhail’s badassness. But it felt like they didn’t give us as much as they did in the previous season finales. The present-day/future stuff where they’ve made it off the island is interesting, but I don’t like that change of setting. Over the past half-season I’ve definitely started to side with Locke/Ben more than the core characters. Hey, what was up with Charlie’s suicide? He could have easily escaped! Dumbass is buying into Desmond’s visions way too much. I’m looking forward to season four more than ever. I hope they touch on The Numbers again soon.

I made steak for dinner last night. Served with green beans and (instant) mashed potatoes. The meat was good, but some of the steaks came out less rare than I prefer due to widely varying thicknesses.

For lunch today, I grilled the last two steaks for sandwiches. These ones came out perfectly medium rare. I sliced ‘em up on the bias and smothered the strips in a sauce made mostly from Longhorn BBQ sauce, A1, and mayo. Then I buttered and toasted a couple sandwich rolls, put the meat on one side, topped it with shredded Colby-Jack cheese, and put them under the broiler for a couple minutes. Extremely tasty. I’m definitely making them again someday.

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