Last 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 [...]

Web hosting provider DreamHost Web Hosting has sent an email to its customer, the owner of Romanian site Zoso.ro, ordering that its high traffic sites block the Googlebot, reports Search Engine Journal, an act that would be potentially crippling to the online enterprise.