Original poster here. Dreamhost is trying to be helpful. I'm beginning to
believe that my installation is the problem.
I'm posting this to correct the record. I'll try to come back and update
when I sort out the problem. It has something to do with how I'm installing
Radiant and Gallery I think.
I second this opinion... Joyent uses Solaris or Linux (I way prefer
Solaris), and xen, zfs, etc. They cater to the client very well.
Excellent group of folks. Knowledgeable people too - course they are
not there to hold your hand with radient ;)
good luck, whatever you choose.
Steven
I've had good luck with Joyent. I've found there servers snappy.
It's also cheap enough and I haven't had any problems running rails
apps there.
-- Steven
On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:43 PM, MtnBiker wrote:
Dreamhost responded that they had had problems, but thought they'd
fixed
them.
50
Dreamhost responded that they had had problems, but thought they'd fixed
them.
50 seconds to load my site. And I had to refile my support request. I didn't
see any reply or follow-up.
Time to move on. I'll be looking at recommendations for a good Rail host.
This will be for a very low hits per
Thanks Sean and others for your help.
I'll write Dreamhost. I'd, of course, not rather starting over at another
host; but if necessary so be it.
Answers and comments on other responses:
Shared account.
The tickler approach might work, but I might do more harm than good as I'm
rather inexperien
MtnBiker said the following on 02/28/2009 09:51 AM:
> Radiant is slow for me on Dreamhost. Can take up to 3 minutes to load. Never
> less than one minute if hasn't been loaded a while. A straight HTML page
> takes seconds.
>
> Is this normal or have I done something wrong?
Possibly. But I suspe
This is likely related to Dreamhost's Passenger settings. In order to
conserve memory, they likely kill off idle Passenger processes quickly.
This means that if your site is not accessed frequently, it will have to
start up a new process almost every time. This is comparable to
starting up a
