Re: Web hosting short list

I thought the problem with Dreamhost, was the never actually have you as much space as they advertised...?

Also, if your website (or database) starts creating a significant amount of hits, they shut you down without reason.

Honestly, it's not that difficult to get 100% uptime (you can check us out) - I guess the issue becomes how long can you sustain your business model when you promise everyone 100's of Gigs of webspace - and suddenly everyones maxes it out!

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On 31 Jul 2006, at 9:39 PM, Kathy A.Graff wrote:

I use Dreamhost, and like it very much. The recent downtimes seemed to be related to power outages. Although there should be UPS and auxiliary power generators, sizing them adequately is probably a moving target, at least for some regions.

As a former system administrator, I find the listings on the status page reassuring. They tell you exactly what has gone wrong and what they did to fix it. Might be too much information for some. On many other services you will find that you will be unable to FTP files to your site, often for an hour or more without any indication as to what went wrong.

Kathy

On Friday, July 28, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Scott Reynen wrote:

On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Bill wrote:

At 12:08 PM -0400 7/28/06, Michael Ghilissen wrote:

I am contemplating Verio, Yahoo, Earthlink, and Cedant. Any experience or advice you would share with me?

Look at Dreamhost.com

Or don't. If you're concerned about reliability, don't use DreamHost. I use DreamHost myself, and would recommend them if your primary interests are price and features. But just take a look at their status page to get an idea of how often their essential services go down:

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

Just in the past week, pretty much their entire network went down for about five hours, and several individual servers have been down with unrelated issues. DreamHost is cheap, offers a lot of services, and has quick (if not always satisfying) responses on support tickets. But reliable they are not.

Peace,
Scott

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