Comments on: Filer fun!

By: Arif

Arif — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:49:26 +0000

Honestly, I moved around many web hosts and they all claim to be 99.99% uptime yet no single one of them proved it to me. so moving to another host is more like a hit and miss issue.

I searched for the best all round host which turned up to be ixwebhosting.com I signed up and it is not better than anyone else. Sitground.com has issues as well, webmasters.com not any better. So it is a common issue with all hosts. The technology is not perfect. with dream host we at least get fast response and funny people.

Maybe I’ll squeeze hard and try RackSpace but I’ll keep my DreamHost account for the lighter jobs, even though I don’t think RackSpace is extremely better but I’m in the business of trying things for my customers’ benefit.

By: thomas

thomas — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:50:49 +0000

Instead of saying you are considering to move to a new host, move to a new one already. We’re sick of you complaining. DreamHost offers great service for the price, you can expect occasional downtime.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:57:25 +0000

Hardware failures are DreamHost’s fault, because they design and make the hardware. Sheesh.

By: catogtp

catogtp — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:01:59 +0000

So this is fixed in a few hours whereas my site has been down or slow for the last week? Give me a break. I’m really starting to regret switching to dreamhost.

By: Myself

Myself — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:08:10 +0000

An email stating that wouldn’t have been bad saving me a lot of time of searching everything under the sun to find out why….

So the last place you looked for a status update is the only place you ever need to look? Where did you check first? Ebay? Amazon? Newegg?

Who would have thought you’d end up finding the status at dreamhostSTATUS.com? That’s just crazy!

Yeah, too bad there’s no way to stay on top of things. Hmm… I wonder what all those RSS links are for?

By: Help

Help — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:53:02 +0000

It was originally registered at DH I believe (was not my site at the time) and I just followed DH’s instructions on how to switch domain name host to another registrar.

My site is still not up, so you are lucky!

By: KingJ

KingJ — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:44:16 +0000

BTW my sites are backup so this issue seems to be resolved.. for me at least Thx DH!

By: KingJ

KingJ — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:41:26 +0000

Is it an existing domain you transfered to DH? or new registered through DH? For an existing domain, 2 parties are involved,so it depends on when the transfer ticket has been issued, and when its been accepted on the other end. You could be looking at 48hours.

By: Help

Help — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:22:06 +0000

Thanks KingJ…

I’m not sure how long it will take for them to respond to the transfer request if I just put it in place now…

Am I looking today or… on Monday… or…

I do appreciate the insight and help though!

By: KingJ

KingJ — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:18:03 +0000

“Help” -> Keep in mind you need to allow sufficient time for the DNS records of your new domain to propagate… thats normal.