27 Responses to “Just Your Average Happy DreamHost Customer”

1. Matthijs Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 10:51 am

   The site is actually down right now

2. Josh Jones Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am

   Ah.. you’re right… but, I think I know why it’s down right now:

   I just checked and it looks like they switched hosts right after things were working!

   Name Server: NS1.NASTIALIUKIN.COM
   Name Server: NS2.NASTIALIUKIN.COM

   Too bad!

3. Jon Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 11:19 am

   Now it’s just a one page site linking to Nastia’s MySpace account.

4. sg Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 11:33 am

   So happy that they switched ISPs?

5. vicm3 Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

   Vote for the use of lighttpd :D, Josh has just posted how well can handle traffic :D, say for my sites that contain my podcast & static html it’ll do magic and spare cpu :D I think there is a suggestion on use of lighty for static content.

   :D

6. Bob Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

   You have to admit, there is a terrible irony in your post title, and the fact that they moved the site because you couldn’t keep it up.

7. Josh Jones Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

   I admit it! :)

8. Javan Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

   Last time my site got a lot of traffic you took it down by renaming the root directory and didn’t contact me. Guess I should try out for the olympics!

9. Lord Bob Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

   Note to self: before taking to the track to win the 100m sprint, let support know first.

10. Plouj Says:
    August 15th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    “shared server with nobody else on it” – sounds like an oxymoron.

11. Anjanesh Says:
    August 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Right now whois shows

    NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
    NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
    NS3.DREAMHOST.COM

    so they went back to dreamhost ?

12. Grey Hodge Says:
    August 16th, 2008 at 12:13 am

    Yep, she’s still at DH right now. Good thing DH has high bandwidth or she’d have to sell that medal to pauy for the overages. ;)

13. picvault Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    I am wondering, why hasn’t the entire web hosting moved to Media Temple’s clustered hosting and resource credit model?

    When my site was with DreamHost, a traffic burst of 2000 visitors per day would result in my site being disabled. Now that I moved Media Temple, my site survive traffic burst of 40000 visitor per day without any problem. I pay $166 per year for Media Temple, which isn’t that much higher than DreamHost considering the great amount of resources available to me.

    It just seem obvious to me that the “traffic surge=>site disabled” model isn’t going to work in today’s web. One digg article could send 50k+ visitors to your site in a matter of hours. Only a clustered service like Media Temple can handle this, cheaply too.

14. VOO Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    Only a clustered service like Media Temple can handle this, cheaply too.

    Damn… your site sure does take a while to load… mine are loading perty danged quick despite a router issue. Maybe once Media Temple get all the kinks worked outta that shit, Dreamhost’s inside spy will tell them how it’s done so they can reap the benefits without all the public beta testing!

    Even though it’s an altogether different type of clustering, I think Dreamhost’s system is pretty amazing for the function that it IS able to serve, for instance, I have some sites that do not need a lot of CPU, but DO need space and bandwidth… they will serve a smaller audience at this stage, but they will be able to serve that audience very well and comfortably. Some of my sites require very, very little in space, and shouldn’t often push very much bandwidth at all… but they DO need a cluster that can take a ton of hits, and I have another host that fills THAT need exactly… (NearlyFreeSpeech).

    One real beauty of that perfectly harmonious combination is that NFS does not do email, but you CAN use theirs and DH’s DNS settings to host a site with NFS but handle all of the email.

    Anyway, no single host is perfect for everyone, though Dreamhost is a dream host for the need that it fills. For other needs there are other hosts… it’s just common sense, it’s not a religious dispute. If you worried 1/4 as much about loving The Lord as you do about which web host’s logo you’re going to settle on for your ass cheek tattoo, you’d probly get let into Heaven.

15. Screw Media Temple Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    The only time I ever hear Media Temple praised is in comment spam on their competitors’ sites. It happens so often I’d have a hard time believing it’s not them doing the spamming.

    I think they just hope for traffic from people that mistake them for Media Layer.

16. Micheal Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    @Josh

    >> “So, we switched her (static html) site from Apache to lighttpd and immediately the load dropped from 200 to .2″

    I am on a Private Server, can I run NGINX or LIGHTTPD as my web server (on port 80) since you’ve done so for Nastia?

17. Caleb Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    I used mediatemple for a medium sized forum once and within days had incurred over $60 in those stupid resource credit overages…absolutely ridiculous. I had to pay all of it when DH could have saved me the money.

    By the way Nastia is one fine piece of ace ;)

18. Baja Real Estate Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Wow… is the visitors counter for real on Nastia website?!?!?!

19. Online Lint Filter Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    It works very well and fast for me, well done Dreamhost.

    The music is funkay.

    PS If your site takes a server down with 2000 hits, learn to optimize it. xdebug or whatnot

20. Sandon Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 12:01 am

    >>Wow… is the visitors counter for real on Nastia website?!?!?!

    I am sure it is working just fine considering that just in the last 3 days (a little bit less) lighttpd has processed 35 million requests and used over 1 TB of bandwidth.

21. John Knowles Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    I wish some of these people would learn about web standards and stop using design view in Dreamweaver.

    The site is visually appealing but unfortunately the photoshop cutout causes the web page to take about 8 times longer to load.

    I hope anyone requiring any form of accessibility standards visits the site. I blame the web master.

22. Adam Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    As of now the site is still heading to DreamHost and loading quite quickly from what I can see.

    Adam

23. Min Thu Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 1:25 am

    Congrats… for her and her website!

    I wonder how DreamHost PS will response to that kind of traffic peak situation. Will it auto increase CPU/RAM right away?

24. Online Lint Filter Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 2:40 am

    John Knowles:

    Wow, you just took all the fun out of the interwebs.

25. Jason Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Should have upgraded to Dreamhost PS…:)

26. paul Says:
    September 7th, 2008 at 1:07 am

    (mt) FTW – not employee related!!!!

27. Ankara Sohbet Says:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    thanks..