My God Dreamhost Sucks! Biggest Newbie Mistake Going With Them

Yeah I don't know about freewebhost dzdrazil, looks shady, I bet you would have to put some ugly banner on your header or something..

 

Feel for you buddy. I also experienced that with Dreamhost. I'm with Hostgator for a year now with no problem so far.

 

Only bad thing in Hostgator is that their email-support takes so long. Thank god for the live chat -support.

 

eh, well... they *are* free, so i suppose trying can't hurt, right? you'll probably hear from me somewhere on here if it goes well or poorly

 

Wow I forgot I created this thread as it's been month now, lots of updates! Thanks for the input. I will give my update with Dreamhost for the month.

IT IS A FRIGGIN NIGHTMARE! Every Night I experience HUGE lag, like 5 mins to load a simple webpage. F'king ridiculous, as a newb I didn't realize you can switch servers to improve performance (duh) so I just wrote an email through their sales page to ask them to switch. And NO I'm not exaggerating about every night!

Oh you are probably wondering why did I submit my support ticket through their sales page? BECAUSE THE F'in SUPPORT LINK IS DISABLED. When they have an outage, they create a bulletin with the status update (last update was 2 days ago) and they disable the link to raise a support ticket. How F'kin retarded is that? I was so stupid to pay a whole year for their crap service, if moving servers doesn't improve then I may have to walk away from them and go with someone else.

 

So I am moving to a new server but they cannot do it for another couple days.

Tonight I just tried loading one of my sites, waited 10 mins until I got a 500 Internal Server Error. F%$cking so bloody frustrating. I may need to bite the bullet and move to somewhere else, we'll see how it is after the move.

When they say "you get what you pay for", this is not what I paid for. It's like registering for phone service or hydro and only getting to use it 60% of the time and can cut out at any time. I don't expect 100% uptime or that kind of quality, but every friggen night with timeouts etc is just ridiculous.

My question is, is it difficult to move all your files and stuff (like mydb etc) to another host? I've never exported a mydb database from one host to another, let alone move my other files. Anyone have any tips?

 

Oh ya here's the bulletin they have displayed on their site (where they display this and disable the contact support link as they don't want to get bombarded with complaints). Notice the 5 days 9 hours ago BS...

We're currently experiencing problems with the blingy cluster affecting web, mysql and mail services. The file server is being worked on, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing you.

Note: We are doing emergency data moves to quell the stem of problems recently caused by your file server. During these moves, your data may be inaccessible. We are moving as we can off as fast as possible. Very sorry about the continued inconvenience!

Note: We are requesting that customers on the problematic file server limit their data uploads as much as possible (the less data being added the faster we can trim it down and return everything to normal). Thank you for your help!

You can keep updated at dreamhoststatus.com! (posted 5 days 9 hours ago)

 

I use right now hostgator and works fine for me i had no troubles with it. You should try it and swich your domain to it I don't think they are recommended for dedicated servers, from what i've heared softlayer.com & theplanet.com are the best. Wish you the best !

 

spliffic, moving hosts really isn't that difficult.
3 Things need to be moved: Files, databases, and domain (also some maillists or other little things you have installed from dreamhost)
Files....simple
Databases, since you have dreamhost, you go goodies>manage sql>go to the web management, sign in, and you should see an "Export" button. Use that and back that up on your local machine.
Finally, domains...is handled at your new host, they may or may not want an auth code, which is located under Reg Transfer under domains.
Hope it goes off without a hitch

 

Thanks guys for your answers and encouragement. DH moved me to another server and so far it's bearable. I may need to move everything in the future though, we'll see how this goes.

 

They do suck, my blog is on dreamhost and its always slow or offline. I love going to http://www.dreamhoststatus.com and see peoples comments. Is hilarious.

 

yes they aren't very good......especially if you want to use many php functions as they restrict many things. Even remote url_fopen is disabled.

 

I use Godaddy for hosting. I have never had any problems what so ever.

 

Dreamhost is a case of 'you get what you pay for' - ANY of the sub $10 hosting plans totally suck - usually for one simple clause:

CPU use.

Early on when I was doing websites I was bitten time and time again by shared hosting plans promising absurd bandwidth limits - like dreamhost - but if you even TOUCH the cpu for anything you instantly get kicked, they keep anything you prepayed and they don't even have the courtesy to let you recover any information off the server (sometimes they'll just blanket delete the whole account)

I had a website that was barely using 90 gigs a month transfer that got kicked off of one of dreamhosts now-defunct 'spinoffs' (that was supposed to be for business sites only) - account deleted, data deleted (including all forum posts) with no prior warning... Why? Because the forums would peak to using 14% of the CPU during THEIR AUTOMATED BACKUP.

Unless you are only using it for flat data transfer, there is NO WAY IN HELL you could actually use that 5tb of bandwidth without being kicked off their servers for hogging the server. It's that simple. Read the terms of service:

Their current slogan - ten years of dreams is quite apt... because what they offer is a dream, not reality.

Again, you get what you pay for... and what I'm paying for today is a dedicated server.

 

Ah say, now, ah say, boy, that there's a straight true avatar now! What was it, "You can't get heah from theah"? Ah say, that's a joke son.

 

I have been with DreamHost for over 2 years. I have 20+ sites. I have never had any trouble that a quick message to support didn't fix. I have tried others and I still recommend DreamHost.

PS if anybody wants a $50 promo code for signup >> DREAMHOST4WP50

Saeros

 

u can ask them for support

 

Go with hostgator

 

I think someone hit the nail on the head when they said you can get better service from a smaller host. Reason being is because they dont have 50,000 customers so they are less likely to skip your ticket and know they need you. To a big host you are just another number.

But if uptime is really important to you, you should be going somewhere like rackspace.com. It will cost you though

 

lunarpages.com is pretty good. Powervps.com too, if you're looking for fairly cheap vps systems with functionality of dedicated servers