Comments on: Dreamhost 777 Code is Back!

By: Free PC Host

Free PC Host — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:56:46 +0000

Oops let me try that again as the above link didn’t work. Click below for more promo codes…

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By: rob

rob — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:20:07 +0000

hi,

its october 29, 2006 today, is the 777 promo code still working?

thank you

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:32:54 +0000

That's funny...but what happened to monkeysaregoodpeople.com, I thought Nathan said that was your new Dreamhost domain.

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:43:34 +0000

Also, since this is the first time I have seen your comment spam protection, I suggest you use KittenAuth instead. How can anyone get mad for needing to click kittens!

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:38:30 +0000

I have moved my blogs over to these guys. Wow, they have there poo together, like in one spot. I like wordpress alot more than the three year old version of dotText we were running, and Dreamhost has a one click installer that takes literally seconds to complete. (It might actually take a day for stuff to happen, but you can fill out the form in like 30 seconds.) Check it out http://russ.unwashedmeme.com and http://tyndalls.mythinger.com!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 17 May 2006 02:48:39 +0000

Igmos… I remember that term. Even a dedicated host can have igmos problems. You still have to trust that the dedicated host will maintain a certain level of service. It’s all about planning and preparation. If you can’t make it reliable, you make it redundant (I took this from something I read somewhere).

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Mon, 15 May 2006 17:41:03 +0000

I agree Judi, and with all of the sites I host there, it’s usually an “A” situation…even with client sites. In the last year though Dreamhost only had one extended downtime that I noticed and that was during the huge LA Blackouts. They were down over 24 hours…and that’s something that really shouldn’t happen…ever. I worked at a hosting/ISP company for a while in Florida and we were prepared for the worst. We even shut down the power once a week for a few minutes to ensure our natural gas generators and battery backups were in working order. Other than that type massive system failure, you have to expect some downtime on a shared hosting environment. Dreamhost is much better about uptime than the previous host I was using, but if you want guaranteed uptime, your best bet is to shell out some major clams for dedicated hosting. That’s the only way you can be sure that no igmos are going to run some process out the roof and kill your machine. Just my 2 cents. :)

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Mon, 15 May 2006 17:16:40 +0000

I have many sites, including my personal blog, at Dreamhost. Been with them since December 2004. Can’t beat the price or feature set. However, I had to move my work-related site away to another host (Pair Networks) a few months ago.

Picture this situation. You go to your website and it doesn’t load and you verify that it’s not a local issue.

Your reaction is:

A. It’s not a vital has-to-be-up-every-second site, so you relax as you go to the control panel to verify that it’s a known problem (or let them know via support ticket that there’s a problem) and you’re fine if it takes a good few hours to even get a reply from support, much less get the problem fixed.

B. Are you kidding me?!? My site is down! I’m in serious poo if I don’t get a reason for the downtime within 10-15 minutes and it burns me up that there’s no phone number I can call for a faster answer.

If your answer is A, then I highly recommend Dreamhost. If your answer is B (or close to it) then I can’t warn you away strong enough.

Dreamhost is OUTSTANDING when everything is working. But no website/email/database functions perfectly 100% of the time. Unless it’s a system-wide issue that makes their status blog the one-on-one support is very poor. It’s good when you get it, but you’ll wait.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Sat, 13 May 2006 01:39:32 +0000

@Dustin: I didn’t even know they had CPU limits :P

@Ryan: Yea, I don’t get any referral credit when you use that coupon code, but I thought I’d throw the referral link in there anyway. What size file are you talking about. I’d be curious to compare…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:38:54 +0000

Doesn’t entering the code default on the referral? I thought I read that last time I almost signed up.

This is so tempting. I don’t need another host, and I don’t particularly feel good about supporting them, but at the same time…ten bucks.

What kind of speed do you get hosting large files? I’ve never broken about thirty kb down from 1and1.