DreamHost’s 7.5 Million Dollar Mistake
By Web Hosting Blog + January 15th, 2008Last night, DreamHost ran a standard billing cycle to clean up stragglers from 2007. Unfortunately, the biller was run for 2008 (December 31st, 2008 to be exact). This caused everyone to be billed as if today was 2008-12-31, wreaking havoc, including debiting huge amounts of money from people’s checking accounts, suspending accounts for non-payments and [...]
