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Re: Dreamhost sucky

dreamer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:19:46 -0000

I agree with twodayslate. Dreamhost is certainly not the best but good enough for their price.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

twodayslate — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:28:22 -0000

I love them. If you don't like them perhaps offer an alternative. Don't bash if you don't have a solution.
They have great hosting. And it is cheap!
http://twodayslate.wordpres...

Re: Dreamhost sucky

MeritAmun — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:10:17 -0000

Dreamhost is the worst hoster I have been with and I was hosted by several US and european companies. I left DH during the money back time I had problems from day one to the point where I had more down then uptime

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Bill Sodeman — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:03:12 -0000

I've been using Dreamhost for 2 years, and I haven't had problems.

Dreamhost does publish a remarkably transparent blog, but that's one reason I like them so much.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Al — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:59:39 -0000

Once I left DH for another one. Now I am back. Why? Cos of their style and transparancy. They keep you informed about what is going on there. Even when only 232 people out of 500.000 are affected for 15 minutes, they just let you know. People who use DH for running 20 sites and freak around and having a lot of traffic shouldn't complain when some of their sites are down once in a while. What's eight dollars a month anyway? A cup of coffee, a sandwidth.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Aaron — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:47:19 -0000

I stumbled across your blog because of your post on AIR (Adobe IPhone Runtime, nice) :) Was surprised to see a post about DreamHost sucking. I've been with them for a year now with no problems. But this next month I'm putting up a site for my photography business, what host do you recommend?

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Dan Shafer — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:35:52 -0000

I'll have to join the chorus of happy Dreamhost customers. I host about eight sites there and the downtimes have been minimal over the 4+ years I've used and recommended them.

This recent outage was caused by a security breach and it was ugly indeed. But if you host half a million domains (as they apparently do), you attract the attention of the juvenile and criminal elements in our virtual society who think it's cool to destroy other peoples' property.

The perhaps untold story is that in the 2-3 days following this breach, they individually restored a lot of peoples' sites -- including three of mine that were victimized -- with solidly maintained backups that meant few if any real hiccups.

Nobody's perfect, but these guys really shine. You owe them an apology for your initial post, Robert!

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Charles — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:41:16 -0000

I have had a site on DH for several years and a prog to track downtime. I have never had even 1 min. of downtime on the server. On the other hand, my router has to be restarted at least three times a week...
Ya' just never know ??????

Re: Dreamhost sucky

some guy — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:50:21 -0000

oh please, like textdrive and other popular rails hosts are so much better.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Rus — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:27:20 -0000

There is a saying you pay for what you get...

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Saskboy — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:34:22 -0000

I mooch off a friend http://www.1337hax0r.com who uses Dreamhost, and we tend to have about 3 hours of downtime every couple months. During the Summer it's attributed to power failures in California during hot days usually. I've considered switching, but my blog isn't a business, so I just suck up the lost hits.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Adam Saunders — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:47:51 -0000

I used to run my sites off of a cheapo hosting plan. I don't know what I was thinking. I recently switched to a HostMySite. They are reasonably priced and more than willing to help you with the more complicated aspects of server management. They offer a nice series of options starting with shared accounts and moving up to VPS, servers and multi-server systems depending on your needs.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Chris — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:21:33 -0000

"It’s your friends fault for not having a backup plan. If it was an important presentation and he was pinning it all on a $10 hosting company"

I agree fully with Jon Symons.

If you are going to tote an enterprise system worthy of A-list blogger time, act like it.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Jeremiah Owyang — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:07:41 -0000

Yup my site has gone down again too --cuz of dreamhost

http://www.web-strategist.c...

Re: Dreamhost sucky

kris — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:48:47 -0000

i like your blog mr scoble - thats why i come here : ) i think the response here shows though that a lot of folks appreciate the cost + features combo that dreamhost offers.

you should have slapped your buddy instead for not setting things up a little more thoughtfully.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Nicole Simon (Berlin, Germany) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:52:52 -0000

As others said before, if you run a huge hosting business, you are likely to read more about them when they fail - and never really when they are good.

Dreamhost for me is a dream - great support, very fast even on the weekend, ssh, cronjobs and reliable fast webserving. I may have seen 2-3 outage over the last 2-3 years. How many providers really do use a dedicated other server to inform you about what they are doing?

Additionally their one click installs are gorgeus.

And yes, if I have something like that running to present, I make sure to have more than one option up because murphy is always around.

As said, I am a very satisfied customer for what they are costing and delivering.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Jon Symons — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:43:19 -0000

It's your friends fault for not having a backup plan. If it was an important presentation and he was pinning it all on a $10 hosting company...well it's irresponsible to pin that on Dreamhost. I worked in an enterprise government environment that spent millions a year to keep webservers running and guess what, we still had outages. It happens, live in reality, have a plan B.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Paul W. — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:32:03 -0000

I and a lot of others, including Cali Lewis of Geek Brief and Dear Cali, have been happily using DreamHost for years. And we recommend DreamHost to our friends. They're really great.

http://www.dearcali.com/hos...

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Harry — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:57:32 -0000

Dreamhost are cheap. For the money, they are great. In fact, for the money, they are wonderful.

Want a genuinely reliable service?

Go somewhere else, and pay more.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

JohnFrost — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:47:38 -0000

Although I don't use Dreamhost for my main site, I did plenty of due diligence before deciding on them as a host for my forums. I've found their staff nothing but helpful and the ration of complaint and downtime not out of the unusual.

There is one thing that will cause me to switch to another provider when my contract is over. While the server space is generous the processor allotment is not. If you get digg'd or /.'d you'll quickly go over their alloted processor amount. This will result in a warning and if it's not corrected (essentially you have to take your website down) they'll terminate your service. That can be a problem if you're trying to run a business, not just a hobby site.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Chris — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:46:17 -0000

I also want to add that I had a $12,000 Sun Microsystems Netra T4 server at Canix for months late last year and earlier than this year, and it performed NO BETTER than the cheap $400 cybertron and $800 visionman servers. As a matter of fact it was far worse than our visionman Intel dual core. Sun, Dell, ect... spray you with doubletalk. Go cheap and make backups using 2 drives if you do web apps. It won't make a bit of difference if you invest more in pricey hardware.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Chris — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:27:26 -0000

If your CEO wants to go professional, I put together a little package for him.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/...
$430 for a decent brand new 1U

http://www.tigerdirect.com/...
plus 2 500 GB hdds for 1TB storage at $119 a piece

http://iweb8.com/colocation/
plus $69 a month coloc at iWeb.
It includes a dedicated reboot. It's only 500 GB, but unless you're serving video, you'll never exceed it.

You can throw Ubuntu or FC7 on there and use LAMP as Scoble does. Now you have a brand new enterprise class setup for far under $1000. If you don't have that kind of money, you should consider getting another job until you have the funds to do your startup.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Tommy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:24:37 -0000

Speaking of hosting issues, I've been having issues with GoDaddy for a long time now. Main issue being their server automatically disconnecting my FTP connection over and over during transfers and slower than usual (other sites in America) access and load times from Norway where I'm based.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Mike — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:22:07 -0000

I've been using Dreamhost for a couple years now and have had nary a problem. I agree with others, it's silly to try to run a business from a budget host. I host several domains with them, but it is ludicrous to think that I could run the heart of any business from them. It really is consumer grade, a great value, that's it.

Re: Dreamhost sucky

Mike — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:15:42 -0000

I also use WebFaction and it's by far the best customer support I've ever seen. I've been with them for 6 months and haven't seen any downtime !