For people paying for dedicated servers, scream. You deserve it.

For everyone paying 9.95 a month for shared access. Really? Seriously? If your job, or your contacts, or your business relies on the fact that you can host 50 sites on a server for 9 bucks a month, and you want it to be up 80% of the time, you deserve everything coming at you.

If you think you can find a better deal somewhere else, go for it. My main site, the one I rely on, and need immediate support, is not hosted here. Is is hosted on shared servers, but at around 20 bucks a month - meaning I’m not fighting for space with 10k other sites. The sites that are for fun, or for family, or are important but not Lose My Job important I host here, as it is the best deal I have found.

I wish that, to post here, you had to be logged in. That would really seperate the wheat from the chaff.

And finally, of *course* they don’t read the comments - it says at the top that this *isn’t* a support forum! If something is down, fill out a support ticket (if you can) and then maybe post here as an FYI to others. If you can’t get to a support form, then when it comes up, and you talk to someone, and you are paying enough, then ask them the alternate ways of contacting. In other words, plan for this stuff people!

the problem is being “kind of honest”.

It’s one thing to tell us about a server move. But some of us were not supposed to be affected: yet our HTTP is fine, but our mysql is down? And on only one hostname?

That and the fact that the mysql generation times are always horribly slow–when I have multiple inexpensive hosts, running the same amount of content & content management system in .02 seconds, and DH takes 7+ seconds, and I email them and they say, “Oh the web server is a little slow, but not the mysql! It’s SCREAMING fast!” I just have to question that…….. especially when 3 moves later (still on the same mysql) I’m still plodding along.

What you show doesn’t surprise me at all. FWIW, I do track my uptime with Dreamhost and I’m something like 99.90% average or so over the *three* or so years I’ve been with them…. but I’ve seen more than a few utter charlie-foxtrots here, and knowing/finding out that Dreamhost has had more than a few problem servers with below 97% uptime, unfortunately, does not surprise me at all.

But for a $10 a month webhost, it’s not that bad for *most* users. I have several friends who are on somewhat higher-end hosts, many of whom are well-regarded industry-wide for stability, and even some of them have run into trouble. One major one had excellent shared hosting (at least on the server cluster my friend was on) for something like 5 years, then after one major migration they SERIOUSLY tanked– for something like 5 months straight til they got it right, 97% uptime woulda been far better than what my friend was getting for those 5 months. :blink:

>> Oddly enough, php mail() does not work, but regular pop mail works…

I’ve hit the ugly Squirrelmail that Dreamhost has for web-based PHP mail several times yesterday/today, and after about 9am yesterday morning it’s all been working fine for me.

Clearly this isn’t true for everyone.

Unfortunately, DH tech support ignores this when you point it out to them, but it’s pretty obvious.