Dreamhosed
Posted 2 years ago at 10:12 pm. 6 comments
I am pretty dissapointed in my Dreamhost service at the moment. I understand that not everything can be up all the time, and that there will be problems, but my site was down for 6 hours today. Starting around 5pm the site went dead, and I was just able to get it back here in Los Angeles a few minutes ago. Every time this happens I start looking around for a new host, but no one beats the price to feature ratio that Dreamhost brings to the table.
I hope this is the last of Dreamhost’s problems for this week, it seems that in the past few days there has been pretty choppy uptime on the network.
I too suffered from this outage, though my service as been pretty good latley. I must be luck to not be on one of those servers who’s names keep poping up on their status blog.
I also had the problem, but only for about 2 hours. The MySQL Server “Bill” seemed to be the problem. Every DB I had running on Bill was down. All the others were fine.
The good news is that Dreamhost is doing some really major upgrading in their data center. You are right that you just can’t beat the features for the price.
I’ve been with Dreamhost for over a year and I’ve had constant outages but, like you, I can’t find someone that offers me the felixbility Dreamhost does for a reasonable price.
After this last fiasco, I made them change me to a new server and things are a little better. I’m not dropping everyday, not I lose service once or twice a week. I guess that’s progress.
I have been with Dreamhost for about a month or so now and was affected by this past weekends outages.
Although it was frustrating, I can’t blame Dreamhost. Murphy’s law got them this time. Problems do happen and although I never was affected, my previous host had a huge amount of problems with servers dieing.
Problems happen and I respect the fact that they were able to bring in a brand new server in the time that they did.
In case you need a new host, I’d like to suggest Site5 (http://site5.com/); they’re a truly amazing host which really engages in development of applications, making their own control panel and an application called Flashback, allowing you to “Flash” your site back to earlier versions (both coded in Ruby on Rails) - all of which can be followed through their engineering team’s blog.
And, of course, the regular stuff like great uptime, support and speed (I host some sites with quite much traffic with them, and never see any problems there).