Responding below -<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Charles N Wyble <<a href="mailto:charles@thewybles.com">charles@thewybles.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Matthew Gallizzi wrote:<br>
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Charles,<br>
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I'm not sure what you're talking about :/. <br>
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Consider yourself fortunate then. :) Many people I know have experienced nothing but problems with dream host, and they are legendary for massive outages over long periods of time.</blockquote><div><br>I'll be darn. I've heard nothing but good things. *shrug*<br>
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I've been with Dreamhost for several years and I monitor my website 24/7.<br>
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Cool. What do you use for monitoring? What type of monitoring do you do? Are you using a single monitor host or a distributed architecture such as pingdom or Keynote?</blockquote><div><br>Nagios, no need ATM for distributed.<br>
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<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">Sounds like some bad luck. Not sure what you're talking about with "get what you pay for" either... most hosts are about $10/mo or so. :/<br>
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I have never personally hosted with dreamhost, even with many many offers of free hosting from various conferences etc. I use <a href="http://vpsland.com" target="_blank">vpsland.com</a> who provides me with CPU/RAM/drive space/bandwidth and I do everything else. Not sure if Dreamhost offers virtual slice hosting or not. I pay 15.00 a month for this service, and a dollar a month for extra IP addresses.</blockquote>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>They have some stuff but I haven't looked into it. <br>
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Zack, MySQL performance is good. I haven't had any issues. If you do have issues, they can move you to another SQL server that may be quicker.<br>
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Yes that is how they solve a lot of their problems. Reactive load balancing based on customer complaints, instead of using something like <a href="http://lbvm.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://lbvm.sourceforge.net/</a> to dynamically allocate resources based on real time data. </blockquote>
<div><br><br>TBH, I'm not exactly sure how they manage all their stuff... and yes, I would agree that simply moving someone to another server probably isn't the best solution, but after I did that I haven't had any other issues. What I like is I don't have to worry about anything, it just works :) I have little to no downtime, speeds are quick, service is good, etc. But it sounds like others are not having as much good luck as I am, strange.<br>
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