My server is REALLY starting to get frustrating. It takes like at least 10 seconds to load ANY PAGE! Do I have to blog about how badly the service is sucking these days for them to take me seriously? This site gets something like 1000-1500 uniques per day. I’m going to start telling them dreamhost sucks and not to use it at all!!! What the F is UP DREAMHOST? Your service is rapidly into NIGHTMAREHOST !!!!
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I also host with DreamHost… Seems like they are rapidly overselling. Taking in lots of money and never adding hardware (or making repairs).
They also seem to count on users never even coming close to using the full storage/bandwidth… because that storage/bandwidth may not actually exist.
Dirty, but MediaTemple is just as bad if not worse.
I’ve had good success with mediatemple, even on our heaviest days over at http://www.flatovercrest.com (and my formulaphoto site runs off it too).
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1000-1500 page views! Important guy.
Read STUPID dont-care-for-customers replies dreamhost staff give regarding their downtime, server restarts and more… here
hey guys why don’t we cry about downtime like a bunch of six year olds?
oh wait..
shit happens and nothing is perfect. you have to expect some problems when dealing with shared hosting, especially on as big a scale as dreamhost is.
choob
you’re right
http://www.thelastminuteblog.com/2006/01/05/hosting-with-dreamhost/
What’s up with you flip-flopping?
Do they suck, or are they awesome?
I’m so confused, you’re like a politician.
their performance has changed over time…
they’re much better now…
I have had great success with DreamHost! It has not let me down a single time!
I once made a 3rd party picture section for Digg (digpicz.com, (see also reddit pics :)), and the shared hosting for $9.95 a month handled 100′000 (hundred thousand!!!) visitors the first day!
I blogged what I optimized to handle such a traffic on a cheap shared host in this post: A few words about Digpicz.com
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