Comments on: Web Hosts

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:02:35 +0000

I’m using Dreamhost. Well, it is just a little bit slow compare to other hosting company I used before which is slow to respond to my problem. Overall Dreamhost is good and the price is reasonable.
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?252837 plus $30 less for every hosting package with promo code RFX30. Hope I help someone to get cheaper hosting solution!

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:11:23 +0000

Welcome to the club…

A good host is really really hard to find. I’ve went through about half a dozen over the past decade and they all ran into trouble somewhere or eventually. Then I looked into running my own web servers and found out that it’s extremely hard to run them reliably also (Not co-located, I mean actually getting a dedicated line and running the neccessary DNS servers and SSHD, HTTPD, SMTPD, FTPD, POPD, and about 5(+ d’s) more securely and patched and power backed-up and …etc,etc,etc.)

App. development seems a lot easier now than sysadmin So when I register my LLC jan/feb now I’m not looking forward to finding a web host service but I understand a little bit more what they need to do and if they aren’t run by ‘pros’ it’s really difficult to have the 99.8% uptime. I found this blog randomly, sorry for posting so long but I’m just saying that I’ve had to lower my expectations of 3rd party hosting companies (or else try it yourself and see Also, it’s harder to find quality when you actually know what quality is (Ignorance is bliss, etc as a software dev. and have done pro. web design years ago I think I’m pickier than what Jane Average website owner knows what to look for…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:28:56 +0000

I’m using dreamhost too (and have been pretty impressed so far) and I’ve not noticed any significant downtime recently, I know they had a bad patch with multiple faliures in an un-excelent data center, but I think they were fixing it, much more details about all that here, on another chaps blog:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/08/the-dreamhost-meltdown

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:42:46 +0000

The tests sounds interesting Phil, but have you taken into consideration the location of the servers? Unless the two servers you are comparing are relatively close in their proximity to each other, then the tests include a variable that you don’t seem to be accounting for.

I have also heard good things about Lunarpages from several sources, and if they would offer the bandwidth that Dreamhost offers (I’m currently at 1.6+TB per month, which increases by 12GB per week I maintain service with them) then I would switch in an instant. And yes, it looks like I will be coming close to that limit this month for the first time, primarily due to our recent game design competition, so I’m glad to have that kind of bandwidth available to me. cheers!

By: Phil Steinmeyer

Phil Steinmeyer — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:09:44 +0000

Ack – dumb error by me, now fixed. The new account is on Lunarpages.

By: Trin

Trin — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:54:32 +0000

So I’m a bit confused. You did some fairly involved testing and research to show that Lunarpages is significantly better than Dreamhost as a host and then you created a 2nd account on Dreamhost?