at least an error page! something like “working in progress” but not just NOTHING !!!

all my website still down! unbelievable!

You would trust a hosting company that costs less than $10 a month for ANY business related venture… even I find that naive.

I’ve come to live with the ups and downs of hosting with DH, yeah sure when they are up they are great, I can’t fault them. But even I realised very quickly that if you want reliable (>99.5% uptime) hosting you need to look at VPS or dedicated server. I’ve got a VPS with another host and even that is only 99.7% uptime over time.

If your “mission critical” work really is mission critical, go speak to Rackspace because that is what they do, and leave DH for those of us who need cheap and cheerful.

On a lighter note, whats going on DH? I need my email now… please?

my web is still not up?

It is 3am now, one hour than DH proposed.

Anybody can provide the update?

The “Blingy Clusterf*ck” took place about 2 months after I switched from another host that cost me nearly 10 times per month, not to mention all the time and energy I had to sink into maintaining the damn thing myself because support wasn’t supportive at all, unlike DH who has answered all my emails in less than 4-6 hours. I was down for about a week total, with intermittent issues totaling probably a month… Since then, there hasn’t been a single hiccup in my service, and even my *gag* Joomla sites are running super fast.

Asking for advice on where to find alternate hosting here is just stupid. Get off your lazy ass and search it yourself. Either that or put on your big girl panties, suck up the 30 minute outage and shut that gaping piehole.

Being told that they are an unreliable host like this is no substitute for reliable hosting.

Does anybody know a good alternative that has a lot of bandwidth (other than globat, that’s where I came from)? I am now looking myself and when I find it, will be attempting to get a complete refund from dreamhost but assuming others are in the situation, I would like to know what they can find too. Please don’t suggest dedicated hosting as that has its purpose and massive monthly bandwidth file hosting is not it (that would cost me thousands in dedicated hosting).

Where did you go to 7 months ago Daniel?

Globat was pretty bad but at least I never had any downtime in the 2 years I was with them!

So they posted something here 3 weeks, 2 days ago. Like I said, I am not in the habit of needing to come here and check to see if there is gong to be a planned outage or not. As far as an RSS feed I wasn’t aware I needed to have one running. The usual method IS via email. My other webhost, SPRY sent me an email yesterday telling me that THEY were going to do some scheduled maintenance this evening too.

Pretty efficient, and I was prepared for it.

Being told 3 weeks, 2 days in advance is kinda silly. Even if I had gotten the word back then, I would be sure to forget it 3 weeks, 2 days later.

Bucko @ 36:

Dammit, it is always fun to part a fool from his money. lol

Maybe you misunderstood me. I don’t really care that Dreamhost is doing some scheduled maintenance and my sites are currently down. It is no big deal. My only complaint here is that they could have easily sent out an email today or last night stating that they were going to shut things down for a few hours to fix some problems. Not all of us are clued into needing to have a RSS feed in case they need to do something. I also don’t need to have an RSS feed to tell me about outages or problems with other servers or hardware that has nothing to do with MY particular server.

dreamhostsucksass @ 50

Wow, they took an hour and a half to get back to you? My gawd, what did you do?

Trust me, Dreamhost is one of the better hosts out there. I have used most of the major ones. They ALL have their moments.

If you want more reliability, you are going to have to pay for it. You could go to SPRY and get a VPS if you want, but you will spend a minimum of $100 per month and still wind up with some down time. It is a computer network, not a toaster.

i knew about this outage a a while back.. and i made the proper preperations.

thank you dreamhost and keep up the good work!