They suck. I don’t feel like getting into all of the boring specifics right now, but after enduring my first few months with Dreamhost (via a non-personal project), I can’t wait to leave them. I know every blogger in the world thinks that they are just the cat’s pajamas, but I for one, think that they stink.
Seriously, don’t get caught up in their touchy-feely ways that make them seem so “real” and so noble, and forget about the one thing you want them to do - not go down, which they can’t seem to do very well. Maybe if they stopped posting stupid photos of themselves getting wasted, and spent some time monitoring things, there wouldn’t be any downtime.
Congratulations, you have a blog that keeps me up to date on the outages. How quaint. It should be empty. If I want to read blogs and have friends, I will read my friend’s blogs. For now, I am going to stay with my blog-less host that just keeps shit running.
You stink Dreamhost, and I hate you. Commence Dreamhost loving comments below.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
oh man do they suck. Though, 1and1.com sucks much, much more. Easy to sign up, have to give them your first born to cancel.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
But much more importantly, who doesn’t suck…
January 29th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I’ve got a Dreamhost account as a place to screw around and test things out. It’s cool for that since they give you a ton of space, but for my more serious stuff (like my blog), which I prefer to be up, I use TextDrive, which I totally dig. Plus they’ve got a deal for a one time lifetime purchase. I paid like $300 for my lifetime or theirs, whichever comes first.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:45 am
@Jonathan…
Do you mean that all hosts suck, or are you needling me for saying that all everything sucks?
I guess I can just assume a bit of both. I use hostgator and they have been great.
And as far as everything sucking…thats the problem with blogs and community review sites. People are far more compelled to write “reviews” when they have strong negative feelings about something…I suppose I should have a category called “awesomeness” to balance things out.