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Sorry to hear you guys had problems with Dreamhost. I've never had any
problems at all and have been recommending them to clients for years !! - as
you say, perhaps i've simply been lucky.

The only thing we agree about is the price!

cheers,
Andrew

On Nov 19, 2007 4:10 PM, Tom Gidden <tom at gidden.net> wrote:

> On 19 Nov 2007, at 15:59, Richard Davey wrote:
>
> > Monday, November 19, 2007, 3:44:20 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >> But also the quality is excellent - their uptime and support has
> >> always been really good (it's never has a problem).
> >
> > That was a joke, right?
>
>
> +1.
>
> And before this becomes a "They've always been fine for me, so they
> must be good" argument, Dreamhost quality seems to be down to how
> lucky you are: whether you share a box and an NFS filer with a bunch
> of load-average-driving SFTP'ing Warezers or not.
>
> Over the past year, I've put in a slew of support calls because I've
> been getting load averages in the high hundreds for extended periods
> (days), and I haven't had satisfactory resolutions... the following
> day, they're >500 again.
>
> You get what you pay for.  I pay very little for my Dreamhost account,
> and that's why I don't expect it to work most of the time.
>
> Tom
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