Posts Tagged: dreamhost

Blogging / Business / Poor Service / Web Design — No Comments
25
May 08

DreamHost is a Nightmare!

On March 5th I purchased an account with DreamHost. I’d heard good things about them and they’re a fairly large name in the world of web hosting. Unfortunately our relationship was not meant to be.

The last two months have been pretty frustrating as DreamHost was constantly having problems and my blog was extremely slow. Even just navigating their control panel was a boring nightmare. And WordPress! It’s slow enough as it is but when I have to wait a full minute to post something it’s not bearable.

So I switched to GoDaddy. My friend Rob and I pitched in for a Virtual Dedicated Server together and it’s only costing about $35/month total. So far it’s going well and I have a lot more options for customization with their full cPanel install that DreamHost’s dumbed down manager.

I am still well within the 90 day refund policy that DreamHost has so I emailed them today asking for a refund. Hopefully they don’t make up an excuse and just give it to me.

Google / Poor Service — 2 Comments
6
Mar 08

Domain hosting hell

The server that I previously used for hosting my blog, personal email, and several other sites is sort of a mess. The owner, a friend of mine, no longer has root access to the server and can’t correct the server time. Also I want to start using my email as IMAP instead of  POP3 so I can have a persistent copy anywhere.

So I decided to sign up for Dreamhost. It was easy enough and I got a great deal ($50 off with the coupon code ‘kingofcouponcodes’). Now, while I was doing all this, my internet connection with Shaw was having area problems and everything was extremely slow! It only served to compound my frustration when I realized that it takes several hours to transfer DNS settings to a new domain. And  once I did, Dreamhost’s IMAP serving is complete crap. I suppose trying to copy 2379 emails to their servers didn’t help the situation.

So with my email not going anywhere and everything in limbo I decided to sleep on it and see what happens in the morning.

This morning nothing is better. Dreamhost is inexplicably slow when loading my inbox (both in Thunderbird and webmail). Now I’m waiting for my personal email to point to Google’s servers and I’ll be using their Gmail service for my email. Google hasn’t failed me yet and from what I’ve read they already have everything in place for mobile email access.

Stupid Shaw. Stupid Dreamhost