On Wed, Aug 09, 2006, Devin Ben-Hur wrote: > When I was researching hosts a few months ago, I considered Dreamhost, > but while cheap they have a terrible reputation: "dreamhost sucks" > produces almost half a million hits from google, and casually sampling > the first couple pages of results indicates they have real problems with > availability, basic competence, customer service, and business ethics. > <http://www.google.com/search?q=Dreamhost+sucks>
In contrast, "dreamhost rocks" yields well over 600k hits. Remember that people who complain are often the vocal minority. I'm not saying DH is fantastic, I have very little experience with them. I'm just saying don't discount them just because other people dislike them. > I wouldn't "dream" of using a service like this for anything I cared > about. Especially not something as technically challenging to support > as Rails apps. I have a client that has two apps deployed at DreamHost and we've had absolutely no problems. Their panel, while not pretty, is very functional and everything pretty much just works. The process to get a rails app running there took less time than I was expecting, and I was generally impressed with the process. I've been considering leaving TextDrive for DH until I can pony up the bucks for a dedicated server, but I'll have to look into these shoddy business practices more. Bottom line, lots of people have good experiences and lots of people have bad experiences with Dreamhost. They're super cheap and offer a lot, but there are tradeoffs. Ben _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
