Comments on: DreamHost Billing Blunder – Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-billing-blunder Web Hosting Blog by a Software Developer Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lin http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-billing-blunder/comment-page-1#comment-825 Lin Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:37:45 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=146#comment-825 <p>I have also have had downtime issues, but mostly with email - do not count on email reliability with Dreamhost. Yes, websites are down frequently but the email problem is worse in many ways because it's intermittent and you never know when you've missed email. Each time I've reported it to them their response has been that there was no problem, even when I had proof otherwise. </p> <p>Recently moved to one of their private servers because we have several sites. As soon as I said I wanted to move to a private server, they didn't ask anything or try to coordinate with me, they just moved them which resulted in a DNS switch and the sites were down just before a critical holiday. On top of that disaster their software errored for one of the moves and corrupted the gallery install AND the backup, which they were unable to fix or recover from their backups. The private server turned out to be very pricey and delivered no noticeable improvement on performance. In fact, we consistently began to hit limits which froze performance on several sites and blogs.</p> I have also have had downtime issues, but mostly with email – do not count on email reliability with Dreamhost. Yes, websites are down frequently but the email problem is worse in many ways because it’s intermittent and you never know when you’ve missed email. Each time I’ve reported it to them their response has been that there was no problem, even when I had proof otherwise.

Recently moved to one of their private servers because we have several sites. As soon as I said I wanted to move to a private server, they didn’t ask anything or try to coordinate with me, they just moved them which resulted in a DNS switch and the sites were down just before a critical holiday. On top of that disaster their software errored for one of the moves and corrupted the gallery install AND the backup, which they were unable to fix or recover from their backups. The private server turned out to be very pricey and delivered no noticeable improvement on performance. In fact, we consistently began to hit limits which froze performance on several sites and blogs.

]]> By: Joseph Burford http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-billing-blunder/comment-page-#comment-821 Joseph Burford Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:53:58 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=146#comment-821 <p>Yup Dreamhost are just fine for static files or media. But don't try using anything that's scripting or mysql intensive, it suxors, a 256mb VPS will give better performance.</p> Yup Dreamhost are just fine for static files or media. But don’t try using anything that’s scripting or mysql intensive, it suxors, a 256mb VPS will give better performance.

]]> By: scotty http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-billing-blunder/comment-page-#comment-822 scotty Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:33:37 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=146#comment-822 <p>Uptime -- not the greatest. My sites on it have been down at least once a month, lasting usually less than 15 minutes.</p> <p>Site access speed -- bandwidth is plenty, network speed is fast (even from Australia) but the server can be slow if you have complicated scripts.</p> <p>However I still rate DreamHost as one of the better shared hosting out there. Tell me one <strong>shared hosting</strong> that lets you create unlimited unix users, create unix groups, assign users to groups, access to all kinds of scripting tools and compilers, plus lots of storage and monthly data transfer to boot? I don't bother to host any heavy PHP sites with them as the speed can be frustrating sometimes, but I have no problem hosting media files with them.</p> Uptime — not the greatest. My sites on it have been down at least once a month, lasting usually less than 15 minutes.

Site access speed — bandwidth is plenty, network speed is fast (even from Australia) but the server can be slow if you have complicated scripts.

However I still rate DreamHost as one of the better shared hosting out there. Tell me one shared hosting that lets you create unlimited unix users, create unix groups, assign users to groups, access to all kinds of scripting tools and compilers, plus lots of storage and monthly data transfer to boot? I don’t bother to host any heavy PHP sites with them as the speed can be frustrating sometimes, but I have no problem hosting media files with them.

]]> By: dotservant.com website hosting http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-billing-blunder/comment-page-1#comment-824 dotservant.com website hosting Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:21:51 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=146#comment-824 <p>This is indeed a tragedy, the last thing a web host wanted to deal with is this sort of large scale issues, this is going to take them a while to clear things up.</p> This is indeed a tragedy, the last thing a web host wanted to deal with is this sort of large scale issues, this is going to take them a while to clear things up.

]]> By: Software developer http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-billing-blunder/comment-page-1#comment-823 Software developer Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:46:38 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=146#comment-823 <p>Apart from the above 2 issues how would you rate dreamhost in terms of uptime and site access speeds, replying to site support tickets etc ? </p> Apart from the above 2 issues how would you rate dreamhost in terms of uptime and site access speeds, replying to site support tickets etc ?

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