Comments on: Dreamhost: a comedy of errors

By: rich text » I’m on Linode now!

rich text » I’m on Linode now! — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:46:03 +0000

[…] my post about my Dreamhost experiences, I finally decided that enough was enough and signed up for a Linode. I should’ve done this […]

By: Dan Coulter

Dan Coulter — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:28:23 +0000

Rich,
I just signed up for Linode because of this, too. I haven’t had nearly as many problems as you’ve listed, but my sites were down long enough for them to drop out of Google. I’m still working on getting all of my sites moved over, but I’ve got backups running now (S3 FTW!) so I should be able to get everything over fairly quickly.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:23:04 +0000

I think that their main problem is that they oversell like crazy.
This leads to poor server performance and stability.
If you want a host that doesn’t oversell I highly recommend WebFaction ( http:/www.webfaction.com ). They have great customer service too!

By: fimm

fimm — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:31:41 +0000

I’ve been a customer of theirs for a few years now, and I’ve only had a couple of inconvenient problems — but then, I’m a fairly low-impact user, and mostly use it for remote backup disk space. Now, after all I’ve heard, I’d be hesitant to run anything big on their servers.

By: Havard

Havard — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:22:11 +0000

Never trust a company that’s selling $200/mo worth of service for $7.50.

By: Tro

Tro — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:16:43 +0000

“Load hovers around 10”
I’m on the ermac machine and the load there is consistently around 50 with 1-,2-hour long spikes of up to 400 every day. Unfortunately, I’m paid for until next January. :(

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:55:31 +0000

I’m seriously considering just stopping my dreamhost service and directing my domain to a googlepages site or something. I rarely even use it for anything other than email, which just ends up being picked up by gmail anyway due to gmail’s superior spam filtering.

I’ve had a lot of problems with them over the years too, but have only been bothered enough to submit a support request maybe twice.

By: darkuncle

darkuncle — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:54:46 +0000

It’s sad to hear how incompetent DH has become of late; I used to colo there and had a very good friend who was a senior sysadmin there, and they were good at the time. Requiring a 12-hour scheduled outage to move customer data between facilities can ONLY be evidence of lack of sufficient planning or proper architecture. =\ (we moved 100+ TB, several hundred domains, and 500+ Mbps Internet traffic from one datacenter to another in 2006 without an outage, so I know it can be done.)

glad to hear you got your stability issues sorted though. :)