Comments on: Dreamhost Server Crash Analysis

By: cc

cc — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:56:49 +0000

DO NOT GET MEDIATEMPLE!!! our sites have been down for 26 hours now! they are way overpriced and downtime occurs all the time. especially at lunch, which is crucial for e-commerce site like ours. They are horrible, and i just switched over to AN Hosting. Hope they dont suck as bad, but who knows. Sounds like you should try vps is your site is busy e-commerce.

By: Web Hosting

Web Hosting — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:10:19 +0000

Time for a move? yes no maybe?

By: Zeke

Zeke — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:09:21 +0000

Don’t tell this blog was on shared server all the while?

By: Consumer Rated Hosting

Consumer Rated Hosting — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:20:40 +0000

I also hosted three of my sites with Dreamhost, and I was really getting frustrated with the with the internal server errors that I always experience with them. I have contacted support and they really can’t give me reliable answer why is this so and its gets me even more frustrated.

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:34:52 +0000

Good to see your blog is back, I hardly recommend go for some VPS , this way you can minimize the downtime and can always check for which script is creating issue.

By: ThePicky

ThePicky — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:00:33 +0000

The common dreamhost shared hosting nightmare errors are “500 Internal Server Error”, “Service Temporarily Unavailable”, “Premature end of script headers: index.php” and “Site slow”

Because of this, from dreamhost shared hosting, I moved my 3 sites to mediatemple ( Media Temple Grid-Server has GPU usage issue). Now with eleven2 without any issues.

By: Yang Yang

Yang Yang — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:48:19 +0000

Thanks for the link!

DreamHost has been a rather decent host up until recently. I’m becoming curious why they have lost their mind business-wise. Any web hosting company nowadays, especially ones as successful as them should be profiting incredibly well. Isn’t it obvious now that they should invest more in hardware and technical staff to better the experience of the clients and ensure for the future?

At least they should take good care of guys like you. For instance, although there are all kinds of negative reviews about media temple grid service on the Web, the big guys who are mostly leaders in the web design / development industry such as zeldman.com and simplebits.com are all very well hosted by them, and who are thus more than willing to recommend media temple to their readers.

Hope they are now beginning to actively seek solutions in regards to their customers like us.

By: mookie

mookie — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:55:14 +0000

i recently went though a nightmare with dreamhost (on and off bouncing of mail over a four week period) and finally got fed up and left. i second the votes for linode. i moved my stuff over to linode and have been happy ever since. good luck.