[Robo]

OK, so...now that I have some domains (including my precious three-letter one ) it's time to find a place for them to live. I've heard good things about DreamHost in the past, and I just wanted to make sure they haven't gone downhill since then. I know they're slowly reducing their storage and bandwidth from their famous 200 GB/2 TB deal, but that's OK, because once you sign up they increase it just as fast, and at the end of a year I'll be back at 200 GB. Yes, I am paying for a year all at once, which I normally wouldn't do but I can get a whole year for $23, and that seems like a deal to me. I'll even get a free domain registration out of the deal - I'm building quite a collection, it seems.

So...is everything kosher with DreamHost? I like that they've gone green in recent months, and the price is...good. I just hope their uptime hasn't plummeted or anything. Oh, and is the one-click WordPress installer as simple as they claim?

Thanks in advance <3 <3

[torifile]

There was a stretch where their email servers were horribly unstable but that's been 6 months now and I haven't had a single problem since. Wait, that's not true... There was also a time one particular site was really slow. I mean REALLY SLOW. Turns out someone had a rogue process running on that server and once they killed it, all was well. That may have been before the email thing. I can't remember.

All in all, I'd recommend them. When I got my one and only original article front paged at digg, it actually held up! And there was audio on the page and everything. I've re-upped for a second year at their usual rates, too.

[Majost]

I really like Site5 (110GB, 5TB for $5). They do me very well. I've had friends that were *very* disgruntled with DreamHost. Admittedly, they were trying to run Rails... but I run Rails on Site5 with little trouble.

[Ryan]

I've been with them since March and all has been good, though what I have isn't very intensive.

[Kraetos]

I'm actually considering going BACK to Dreamhost. Their old Web panel didn't work very well with Safari, but I hear their new one does. On top of that, my eMail accounts from Surpass Hosting have never quite worked right...

So yeah, thumbs up for Dreamhost.

[scratt]

I read somewhere that Dreamhost was hacked recently. I will try to find the link.

I think it was actually related to one of their control panels. Not sure if it was the old or new one.

Gruber talks about it, and linked to this article: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/...curity-breach/

[PKIDelirium]

Surpass.

I've never had any problems with mail, though. You might have been on an older server.

[kretara]

I've been hosting 6 sites with Dreamhost for 2 years and have never really had a problem that lasted for more than 2 days (and that was when they had an email issue).

[Jerman]

I have been with them for over a year, and am incredibly happy. Right when I first signed up, there was a weird issue with email, and some downtime, but since then it has been pretty rock solid. I love being able to go to dreamhoststatus.com to check out the state of everything, and they generally warn when there will be a short outage etc.

In regards to them being hacked recently, they were not alone. A bunch of other (but most likely smaller) hosts were as well, and they have at least claimed they are putting other security measures into place. Overall I personally was very satisfied with how they handled the whole thing. But then again I was not on one of the hacked servers...

I am using about 60, maybe even 65 gigs of space between all 20 or so of my domains (And about 4 active sites, one with a ton of traffic), and I have nothing but good things to say about the speed and such, and I will be the first to admit that the SQL calls I use are not optimized in any shape or form. I run a few active cron processes, one of which is an automated backup script, and it saves a zip archive on the server, and also sends it via ssh to my server at home.

SO, yeah, no complaints by me, especially given the price. And I have been paying the 20 a month for a "developer" account or whatever they call it, and still feel it is worth every penny. So for 23 bucks, you are getting one heck of a deal.

[World Leader Pretend]

I haven't had any trouble, although I use it mostly for email and a few low-traffic sites..

Recommended!

[Robo]

I signed up. I'm all, OMG my site is online.

mog.me.uk

(It's just a "coming soon" page. But it's a "coming soon" page I'm damn proud of. )

Thanks for the input everyone <3 <3

[joveblue]

Hang on, sorry if this has already been covered somewhere else, but don't you live in Vegas? That isn't in the UK last time I checked... what's with the ".uk"?

Also, what's the story behing "mog.me"?

[Robo]

Originally Posted by joveblue Hang on, sorry if this has already been covered somewhere else, but don't you live in Vegas? That isn't in the UK last time I checked... what's with the ".uk"? Also, what's the story behing "mog.me"?

I do live in Vegas, but I wish I lived in the UK. (I'm sorta planning on moving there in the distant future.) Also, there isn't yet an appropriate US domain or subdomain for personal pages or blogs, which is what .me.uk is. "Mog" is my moniker at most other websites, so when I saw that mog.me.uk was available, I kinda...jumped on it.

[joveblue]

Well there is ".me.us"... but that's for Maine...

[PKIDelirium]

I just use .com

[Robo]

Originally Posted by PKIDelirium I just use .com

Corporate bastard.

[noleli2]

So, while it's been fun to have an old PC running Linux to use as a server (not really hosting anything; mainly for experimentation), I think I'd like to get a domain and sign up with a real host. Dreamhost seems like they offer the most features for the price of any of the discount hosts (Subversion!), so I think I'll go with them.

I saw that they have a pretty nice referral program, so I might as well try to help out my fellow Mac users. Anyone want to PM me a promo code? The best deal wins!

[Brad]

You could use the APPLENOVA code. Though, it's not really a great deal.

[Kraetos]

Originally Posted by Roboman I signed up. I'm all, OMG my site is online. mog.me.uk (It's just a "coming soon" page. But it's a "coming soon" page I'm damn proud of. ) Thanks for the input everyone <3 <3

Augh! My eyes!

[noleli2]

That helps support the boards? Sounds like a good cause to me.

Now I just have to decide if I really want to pay two years in advance....

[ast3r3x]

I've been very happy with hostgator is anyone cares

[Robo]

Originally Posted by Kraetos Augh! My eyes!

That's not the coming soon page. That was a countdown to HP7 I made so my friends and I could, um, check the time remaining from our mobile phones. I just haven't taken it down yet because I'm in Minnesota and my compy isn't.

It had to be gold and red, for Gryffindor.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by noleli2 That helps support the boards? Sounds like a good cause to me.

It helps my bottom line which indirectly helps the boards.