Comments on: Why I heart Dreamhost http://scottwyden.com/why-i-heart-dreamhost/ Portrait, Event & Travel Photographer Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike Panic http://scottwyden.com/why-i-heart-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Mike Panic Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:01:17 +0000 http://www.scottwyden.com/blog/?p=225#comment-90 I've been with them for a few years and the fresh new web host smell is starting to fade. I have MySQL server issues with them every other month, the last one caused an error500 to show up on my site for more than an hour. Trouble ticket submitted, 4 hours later (3 hours after the problem was resolved) the official answer was, "the down time was due to the load your sites using WordPress put on our servers, here's a list of stuff you should do to reduce the load." Sorry, that's not an acceptable answer. According to my stats, at the time the site went down there were barely 50 users on my one site, as an article just started to get popular on StumbleUpon, total uniques for the day were only 10-15% higher though. Their other suggestion was that I upgrade my hosting plan to their premium account to prevent this from happening again. This is a very common problem with web hosts, DreamHost is one of the biggest - they oversell their disk space and bandwidth, so it looks good from the outside but as soon as you start to push their limits, it fails. They hope you never use the "all you can eat" marketing ploys. I use maybe 1% between several sites of the bandwidth and disk space allocated to me, because they give you SOO much. If I ever did want to max out the amount of space I am paying for, I'm sure it would have a negative impact on whoever elese is sharing that particular server space with me. I've been with them for a few years and the fresh new web host smell is starting to fade. I have MySQL server issues with them every other month, the last one caused an error500 to show up on my site for more than an hour. Trouble ticket submitted, 4 hours later (3 hours after the problem was resolved) the official answer was, "the down time was due to the load your sites using WordPress put on our servers, here's a list of stuff you should do to reduce the load." Sorry, that's not an acceptable answer. According to my stats, at the time the site went down there were barely 50 users on my one site, as an article just started to get popular on StumbleUpon, total uniques for the day were only 10-15% higher though. Their other suggestion was that I upgrade my hosting plan to their premium account to prevent this from happening again.

This is a very common problem with web hosts, DreamHost is one of the biggest – they oversell their disk space and bandwidth, so it looks good from the outside but as soon as you start to push their limits, it fails. They hope you never use the "all you can eat" marketing ploys. I use maybe 1% between several sites of the bandwidth and disk space allocated to me, because they give you SOO much. If I ever did want to max out the amount of space I am paying for, I'm sure it would have a negative impact on whoever elese is sharing that particular server space with me.

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