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03-21-2008, 11:17 PM #1New Member
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A Bad DreamHost Experience
After just 43 days of hosting with DreamHost, my experience was bad enough to leave. I know plenty of people are just fine with DH, but I just wanted to tell my story. I run a PHP/MySQL chat program for a football recruiting message board. Traffic can get extreme every once in awhile, but nothing too ridiculous. In any event, the first week or two with DH weren't too bad at all. The control panel was a little awkward (I prefer cPanel) but I got used to it. Soon however, the site was only intermittently available, and when it was, it was EXTREMELY slow, even when no one was logged into the chat app. I began getting complaints from other users, which were not fun to answer. I checked the DH blog and saw several status updates about upgrades/maintenance that were taking "longer than expected". I felt like DH should have warned us about planned maintenance that may have effected the availability of customer sites. I was willing to forgive this. However, once my site went back online, things were fine again for another few days until the slowness returned with a vengeance, making the site grind to an almost unusable halt. The problem persisted and I emailed support. They informed me they were doing other sorts of maintenance on the filer and my entire cluster was affected with the slowness. Again, users were not informed about this significant downtime. I decided that was an unacceptable amount of downtime for a high-end host. 3-4 days of complete unavailability followed by several more days of slowness in just a 43 day period were not acceptable to me. I cancelled my account and have currently re-hosted with HostGator. On the plus side, DreamHost's support was very fast and quite courteous
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03-21-2008, 11:27 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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03-21-2008, 11:36 PM #3New Member
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Actually, if you want to make a spectrum of web hosting services, I'd consider DH and HG to be high-end compared to bargain basement hosting services and other types you might find along the lines of Yahoo. It's obviously not Akamai or a dedicated, but the point of the post was not to discuss semantics on what constitutes "high-end". In fact, that's a minor detail and it's not even that important to the overall post. For ANY host, low-end or "high" that should not be an acceptable amount of downtime. A thoroughly uninsightful, unhelpful, dick post on your part. Well done.
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03-22-2008, 12:14 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Dreamhost has the slowest MySQL ever, don't go with them. Glad you made the switch.
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03-22-2008, 12:20 AM #5Junior Guru
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Fixago beat me to the punch. In no way shape or form is dream host a "high-end" hosting provider.
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03-22-2008, 12:29 AM #6WHT Addict
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dreamhost seems to be currently down
All my sites hosted by dreamhost are currently down anyway
Again and again and again
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03-22-2008, 12:39 AM #7Knowledge is all
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03-22-2008, 12:42 AM #8WHT Addict
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Great joke steven
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03-22-2008, 12:45 AM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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Yeah, I was going to mention the downtime of the Dreamhost servers, since even the main site, dreamhost.com is down, but they do have a website with attention to that matter: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
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03-22-2008, 12:47 AM #10WHT Addict
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Thanks for the information Tinkleondabeach
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03-22-2008, 12:51 AM #11Knowledge is all
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03-22-2008, 01:10 AM #12WHT Addict
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I do believe they are used to face such a situation as they are in business for some years
No big deal I guess
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03-22-2008, 01:35 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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Do you know exactly how much this "extreme traffic" which you call "nothing too ridiculous" is? Having more exact figures will help you when doing q&a in order to find out what is wrong. (and also in this case, make it possible for you to get yourself a new hosting provider fit to your needs)
And no, database driven sites isn't Dreamhost's strong side...
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03-22-2008, 03:33 AM #14Web Hosting Master
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You're kidding right? I mean, you have to be. Because that's the biggest load of bull I've ever heard. DH and HG are bottom of the barrel. They're right there with GoDaddy and Yahoo.
Perhaps you missed the highlighted parts of the description I provided. They are neither (a) expensive nor (b) technologically advanced. They both provide shared hosting for the masses. I spend more money on cigarettes than I would hosting with them. Hell, a bottle of Jack costs more than I would spend on them for a month of hosting. I couldn't even buy a Filet-O-Fish at McDonald's for what they charge.
I really don't know what to say if you consider them the higher end of the spectrum compared to "bargain basement" hosting services. Seriously. You're killing me here.
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03-22-2008, 03:44 AM #15Aspiring Evangelist
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Dont fault lindec. His just misinformed.
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03-22-2008, 04:24 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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Dreamhost is doing a great job in their market-segment though.
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03-22-2008, 10:41 AM #17WHT Addict
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Today, a nice 10/15 hours downtime ...
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com
Very good for our businesses indeed
WE CAN'T ACCEPT THISLast edited by Lastbutnotleast; 03-22-2008 at 10:56 AM.
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03-22-2008, 11:20 AM #18Aspiring Evangelist
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DreamHost used to be a good host. In the earlier age, they were developer-friendly hosting provider.
My memory stopped at the moment http://web.archive.org/web/200201181...dreamhost.com/
From 2003/2004, they joined the over-selling game of hosting business. I'm sorry to see lots of company changed in this way when they had to find some ways to expand and grow.
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03-22-2008, 08:21 PM #19New Member
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03-24-2008, 09:06 PM #20Junior Guru Wannabe
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I must have been having to much R&R this weekend... didn't notice the outage. Hmmm... I'll keep it in mind though if the State of Texas comes to ask me to host their website...
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03-24-2008, 09:28 PM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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03-24-2008, 10:16 PM #22Newbie
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...Rant ON
I'm always befuddled when I read comments that try to tie price to performance.
In "most" cases this is absolutely true - you get what you pay for. However; there are hosts that provide inexpensive hosting that are high performance. They simply do it in volume.
Keep everything in perspective and don't generalize - you may find yourself paying too much for the same hosting that could have cost much less elsewhere.
Being human, haven't we all had experieinces where someone said something was true only to find out later in life that the initial comment was based on a generalization and not true for the entire universe of like-typed issues? (rhetorical question)
Well at any rate, buyer beware but don't buyer be blemished by generalizations.
I had a terrible issue with HostMonster - another well known host only to find out that they are not so willing to listen to reason or proof and would rather make generalizations of their own.
It's everywhere, buyer and seller alike.
...Rant OFFPeter Marek
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03-24-2008, 11:05 PM #23Retired Moderator
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That's an archive from back in 2002. Funnily enough, the service that makes it available is actually called WaybackMachine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
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03-24-2008, 11:32 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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I haven't tried the other two, but as I have other hosting accounts I am not having any wordpress blogs on Dreamhost any longer.
There has also been issues getting wp-cache to work on Dreamhost.. unfortunately.
EDIT: But what I want to say is that Dreamhost offers great value for the money, depending on what you are out after.