[clue-talk] Dreamhost is Nightmarehost -- Need a new hosting company

[David Rudder]

I use eApps. They specialize on Virtuozzo VPSes. You need to keep a 
close eye on your /proc/user_beancounters info, and upgrade if you find 
yourself hitting the ceiling. Otherwise, they're rock solid. Also, when 
presented with a picture of their ass and their face, they usually can 
tell the difference. Not so much with many other hosting providers I've 
used.

I'm an *extremely* picky hosting customer. My app has a high uptime 
requirement, and can use a lot of CPU over a long period of time. The 
1st thing I do when getting a new VPS is put up a Nagios check on it. 
eApps has done very well.

-Dave

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Hi Folks.
>
> Once again, I'm looking for a new webhosting company. Regrettably,
> Dreamhost has become completely unreliable, both for web hosting and
> e-mail. Apparently, even the act of being accessed by a search engine will
> bring my site (or the server I'm on) to its knees. Other server outages
> occur on a semi-regular basis, but I don't know what the cause of those
> are. E-mail regularly fails with session timeouts or authentication
> errors. Hence, Dreamhost has become Nightmarehost.
>
> I have one recommendation already for BlueHost, and I'll probably get a
> COTSE.net account for e-mail, regardless, so that if I have to go through
> this crap again, at least I won't have to switch e-mail addresses around.
> (And since I know someone will suggest it, no, I'm not going to use
> GMail.)
>
> I just need reliable hosting with php/mysql, and ssh access.
>
> Any recommendations welcome.
>
> jed
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