Comments on: Disappointed with Dreamhost

By: darren

darren — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:24:22 +0000

You can check out Austrlaian servers at rapidhosting.com.au – their website is incomplete (new one is up at the moment) – but you can drop them an email and they’ll response and talk to you about their servers.

RapidHosting is about speed – so they don’t allow 1000+ users on a single machine. Ever. Shell Access, PHP4/5 msql, python etc.

Have an online chat system you can talk to them at – if not, leave an email. =D
Cheers

By: tdo

tdo — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:18:28 +0000

Dreamhost goes down literally everyday for me. From anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes or more. Usually 3-5 times a day. If you are looking for something even remotely reliable I would NOT RECOMMEND dreamhost. They are super cheap becuase thier product is crap.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:59:24 +0000

Well, I signed up for Dreamhost the past June 19. Never a problem…

Until yesterday. A fileserver hosed up everything – I’d have thought they knew about this thing called, uh, redundancy.

No site. No FTP. No mail.

It’s been 24 hours. Yet somehow, statistics can be had to report they have had no outages yesterday, and overall have had 99.6% uptime in the last 36 months?

Don’t know others, but I see a full day of outage in 27 days and counting. (Their “administration team” is headed to their data center to “perform the steps” to recover from the crash. Again, I’d have thought that this team would have been working on that single point of failure about, oh, 24 hours ago.)

Thankfully I paid by credit card, and am within the 97 day refund period. Now if they would be so kind as to transfer my DNS to a more professionally run outfit in the next few weeks, I’ll be gladly on my way.

By: The Changelog

The Changelog — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:34:28 +0000

Thanks to all of the helpful comments people left in response to my last post about hosting. I got some really helpful hints from them — including the one I eventually followed, to VPSLink.

I wound up going with VPSLink. Their prices are amazing and

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:09:11 +0000

I can’t imaging how one can downgrade from being root on a VPS to merely a normal shell user account on a shared hosting :)

There are many budget VPS around that offers good price on big resources. I can recommend unixshell but they don’t allow any signup at the moment. You can also get cheap VPS at vpslink.com (part of Spry.com) like $20 a month for a 512Mb OpenVZ VE. Or ServerAxis.com – $30 a month for a 512Mb RAM + 1Gb sway XEN VPS.

But note that they are unmanaged VPS. Not so good if you don’t want to manage your Linux VPS yourself, but good if you don’t want their engineers to mess around with your setup :)

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:19:21 +0000

Wow. I’ve done some checking and there really are quite a few cheap hosting companies in Germany. Do you know of any other reputable ones?

By: sdf

sdf — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:02:35 +0000

“root” servers are so cheap in germany, i recently switched from plain old hosting to my own server. alturo.de had 14,99 euro/month servers back then (they are apparently sold out at the moment… they sell the old 1&1 server for cheap whenever 1&1 upgrades)
it’s not that fast (celeron 1200, 256mb, 80 gb), but i’m alone on it.

perhaps finding a cheap server would be the best solution…

By: Jamuraa

Jamuraa — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:43:36 +0000

I have to second that you should pretty much not ask for email back from them on stuff – they aren’t incredibly responsive but they do update the status blog somewhat regularly. I am with dreamhost now, simply because for what I do it’s about 10 times cheaper than any of the alternatives. Because they are so cheap I don’t complain if my site is down for a couple minutes. There is a bit of getting what you pay for. Fortunately every dealing I have had with them has been very good, and they even offered to move me from a server which seemed overloaded to me (it was actually just some guy’s process hung). They are actually one of the best situations that I’ve come across for no-hassle setup of websites, email and domain management. I can’t say that I wouldn’t do things differently if I still had my dedicated server though.

One thing – usually if you troll around some of the web server forums, you can find some really good ddeals on dedicated servers. I haven’t paid more than $100/month for a dedicated server with 1TB of bandwidth in years.

By: mako

mako — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:34:29 +0000

I have used 4 different services so far. The only one that I feel comfortable recommending to others is Rimuhosting. You get their “high performance” Xen based systems and they run great. They were the only people I found that didn’t overload their UML boxes either. I’m on my third machine and Mika has one there as well now.

They are a bit more expensive than many competitors but offer a free software developer discount and have a policy of putting less hosts on a single piece of hardware than the vast majority of other hosts I’ve used. If you plan on actually using your machine, they are simply a better deal.

You can send messages and they respond to prompts 24/7 without minutes and are hugely clueful. They are worth spending a little more.

In almost a year now, I’ve had about 10 hours of unscheduled downtime (one day, a machine died) and they refunded my whole months payment without asking. They rock.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:02:34 +0000

Try unixshell if you want a good VPS.

By: Kai Hendry

Kai Hendry — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:10:19 +0000

Dreamhost do have a clue. I’ve used other Web services. I’ve run my own. Dreamhost do it better.

Outages happen and they’ve thankfully rarely affected me. I wish they updated http://dreamhoststatus.com/ even more regularly.

With mail, you should forward to Gmail first. So you get spam filtering and if something is wonky on Dreamhost, use Gmail instead.

By: gary ng

gary ng — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:01:09 +0000

may be tektonic ? I used to have a VPS with them running woody

By: Andre Luis Lopes

Andre Luis Lopes — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:57:39 +0000

Hi,

I’ve just recently started on this VPS thing and I went with RimuHosting (http://www.rimuhosting.com). They use Xen as the basis for their VPS plans and seems to be clueful.

However, I don’t think their prices are as good as the ones you mentioned. Anyway, it’s worth checking out.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:18:54 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. I took a look at textdrive.com. They do look like a very clueful sort. Unfortunately, do get the amount of disk space I’d need, I’d actualy wind up paying slightly more than with a VPS.

I am deleting the comment recommending hostingle. It appeared to be spammy. And I noticed while hostingle’s site was loading that they had hidden all sorts of irrelevant keywords in an alt tag for an area. I don’t want to give them a link.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:13:36 +0000

Having used DreamHost for probably two and a half years, I can say I’ve been pretty happy with them. They have occasional outages, but none that I’ve really noticed. They won’t provide 99.999% uptime, though, so if that’s what you’re looking for you probably will want to just go with a VPS.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:32:50 +0000

Take a look at http://www.textdrive.com Founded by geeks, extremely responsive support, and very good communication their their community.