Goodbye Dreamhost, You’re a Nightmare

So I’m finally biting the bullet and switching the hosting for all of my sites. Dreamhost, my current host, is horrible. There is constant downtime, a couple of months ago almost every other night my hosting would be down (for all my sites). And DH is CONSTANTLY slow. Every 5th time I visit one of my sites, the brower almost times out. Dreamhost sucks, but it’s also ~$10/month.

Media Temple is much better. Some companies I work for host with MT, along with some other larger sites I know, and they are much better. I have developed sites on Media Temple hosting and they give equal flexibility for controlling server options (more or less) as DH does. Also, the Customer Support for MT is faaaar superior Dreamhost, blows them out of the water. But, MT costs twice as much. I think it’s worth it.

So, I’ve bought the account and will begin transferring my sites to MT over the next couple of months. Hopefully there won’t be any hiccups and we’ll keep chugging right along.

Comments

990adjustments
Posted on 17th April, 2008

Agree, DH is way oversold. I did MT for a while and were great to deal with. A little pricey but you get what you pay for right? Recently switched to Web Faction mainly because I want to develop on the Django framework. Excellent hosting and they give you a great deal of access to the server.

Good luck on the move.

Chris
Posted on 17th April, 2008

Yeah, I finally gave in to the “get what you pay for”. In the past my experience with less expensive hosts had been positive, but now it’s to the point I need something better.
I haven’t seen much about Web Faction, will give them a look too.
Do you do a lot of Django development? I do some desktop/tools python dev but haven’t messed much with online development. I was down in Miami at the FOWA conference a couple months ago and Leah Culver, the developer on Pownce, was talking about how much she loved Django. I’ve heard good things.

990adjustments
Posted on 18th April, 2008

I’ve been doing small on and off projects with Django to get comfortable with the framework and build my site with it. I was also doing python dev for the desktop and figured since I knew python, it would be a natural jump to Django. So far, I’m enjoying working with it. Still digging on the internals though.