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I've been with Dreamhost for quite a long time. Dreamhost is like a decent all-you-can-eat sushi bar. Not the best product, but it's worth the money you pay. A
by stevewillows 13y ago
I've been with Dreamhost for quite a long time. Dreamhost is like a decent all-you-can-eat sushi bar. Not the best product, but it's worth the money you pay.
As you said though, their goofy attitude toward outages and such isn't good. I like the transparency of their status site, but when shit goes wrong I don't want a cat-meme reference.
- furyg3 13y agoThe sushi bar is a decent analogy. I use dreamhost as a sort of project sandbox, and for that it works pretty well. If you need a place to do a one-click install of wordpress or some other project, or just a shell to bypass some firewall, upload some large files for a while, it's great. I would never, ever put anything where I needed real uptime on Dreamhost, because performance varies wildly. If a project was getting serious, I'd use Linode, Rackspace, or Amazon. I also recommend to everyone that they separate out their domain name purchases from their hosting provider.
- FedRegister 13y agoI make it a point to always separate the following things, especially with services that I run for others: Domain name purchases DNS hosting Email hosting Web hosting That way any of the layers in the stack can be replace with sufficient planning and if, say, email is down then the web hosting should still work.