Comments on: Let’s Save Our Environment Harder

By: kareem

kareem — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:36:48 +0000

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By: Melinda

Melinda — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:15:01 +0000

Ah, Dreamhost. I just love you. Don’t know why especially but I do.

And so does my cat (the stripedy one, not the black one). His name is Willys and he thanks you for your suggestion to ride my dog to work. Actually I don’t have a dog but if I did my cat (the stripedy one named Willys and not the black one named Jeepers) would thank you.

Good work, team–keep it up!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:56:56 +0000

Well, I’m all for trying to make a difference in my own small part of the world. We all DO have a responsibility to at least attempt something, so I am happy that Dreamhost is wanting to do something positive.
Yes, the plans are inexpensive, and i’m not techie enough to understand what some of the comments here mean, but I am overall pleased for getting what I pay for. I have never personally seen my site down since it’s been hosted here, and though I do not use THAT much space in the overall scheme, I wouldn’t mind not having to worry about disk or bandwidth space.
Anyway, my 2′c is in, and i’m all for sticking with what works for me, we should all know that everyone cannot be always pleased, but I do appreciate efforts made to please.
Thanks..

By: makk2

makk2 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:24:04 +0000

“99.9% uptime means 0.01% downtime working out at around 3 days a year.”

Actually, John, 99.9% uptime would mean that the site’s down only 0.365 days per year, or about 8 hours. If you were advertising 99% uptime you could expect downtime 3 days a year.

I think the problem with Dreamhost is this– they advertise themselves as providing tons of memory, bandwidth, etc. and then they don’t deliver. If your web hosting services suck, fine, but be honest about it– don’t falsely advertise and then say “well, you should have expected us to suck because we’re inexpensive.”

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:05:20 +0000

I found what looks like a really good workaround for the new setup, enabling you to use custom procmail and SpamAssassin on your hosting server. It does require some setup and use of IMAP folder syncing, but it’s pretty well documented – see http://www.unsaturated.com/projects/spamassassin-changes-for-dreamhost/.

By: Leishtek

Leishtek — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:38:07 +0000

my friends hosts with you (Xenolegacy) so its good ya’all are cutting out the crunk wherever you can. Its amazing when you sit down at the table & think about things, you can find something that can be downsized or improved. Thank god we don’t need an MBA to do *that*.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:04:15 +0000

I think the ironic thing here is that I’m in the opposite boat. I really want to be moved over to the new servers and get off my slow bottlenecked piece of crap with 5000000000000 people running random “funy blog XD” websites.

Alas, I volunteered almost as soon as the opportunity become available and so far nothing has come of it.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:40:37 +0000

@Martin,

I found out (the hard way) that I’d already been moved, a mere day after the newsletter was sent out. I’ve noticed that my new mail server is WAY faster, and the only problems I’ve had thus far were related to my DNS being hosted elsewhere, and our email client being set up to connect to machinename.mail.dreamhost.com, instead of my own domain.

That and, of course, losing the custom SpamAssassin install which utilized procmail. I thought I was safe, having been “grandfathered in”, but that only gave me an extra 6 months with procmail. Guess I’ll have to figure out the forwarding workaround, as detailed here:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/05/23/what-web-hosting-is-for/#comment-95733

It would have been nice to do it when *I* was ready, though! Heck, even a little email notice to tell me they were moving me over to the new server would have been nice…

Since I was already on the new server, I went ahead and “volunteered” to move, to claim my “unlimited” bandwidth/disk. I got the following unsurprising message: “And ha.. guess what? Your account was already on the new system! So, that’s it.. you’re done, nothing more to worry about!”

Yeah… Ha.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:02:48 +0000

@zylox: After getting the monthly newsletter I decided to volunteer to upgrade to the new servers. I immediately got the message that my account was upgraded to “unlimited” bandwidth and disk, and after that that i was already on the new servers!

So I can give you some more info about the server I’m on; it’s a quad-core Xeon (E5405, that’s 4x 2.0 GHz) with 16 GB RAM. “df” shows the largest local disk as a /mnt/local, a 4 TB disk that is on a 3Ware 9650SE-8LP; that’s an 8-port hardware RAID controller for SATA disks (http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/9650SE_DS_101106.pdf). So I’m guessing 6 disks in RAID-6 for the main storage and 2 disks in RAID-1 for the OS, but hey, that’s just a guess.

By: Julian Knight

Julian Knight — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:19:12 +0000

NO PROCMAIL !!!!!!

One of the main reasons for moving to DH was the shell access to procmail with the filtering and routing it gives me.

So the new “service” doesn’t support this? I really am going to have to look for somewhere else then I suppose.