Comments on: Getting Booted from DreamHost

By: Zack Katz

Zack Katz — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:47:57 +0000

I’ve had a bad experience with MediaTemple’s GridServer recently. They went down for 7 hours on Cyber Monday (the Monday after Thanksgiving), and have had mediocre speed, etc. Their service is good, however.

I’ve been happy with 1&1.com, although they don’t have PHP5 or some of the fancy Rails stuff. They have everything I need generally, and are cheap. They have had great uptime for me. I know people hate them, but I’ve had a good experience.

I’ve recently tried A2 hosting; they have PHP5 and Rails, etc, as well as a nicer admin interface than 1&1. I’m a web designer, and so I use lots of hosting services.

By: Tank

Tank — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:19:22 +0000

I’ve been really happy with http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net. It’s cheap and has been really good to me over the past year I’ve been with them.

Feel free to drop me an email if you want more info on nearlyfreespeech

By: Northern Cyprus

Northern Cyprus — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:42:21 +0000

I have heard good feedbacks about Media Temple. Why don’t you try ‘em.

By: Nick Momrik

Nick Momrik — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:35:59 +0000

I’ve actually taken a look at the Gridserver package from MediaTemple. Nice to hear it works well.

The spam attacks seem to have died off, so I might just stick with my current package and hope they don’t come back as hard as they had been hitting me. I really don’t want to deal with host changes and all that jazz if I don’t have to.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:02:03 +0000

I used to be with 1&1, but they host databases on a separate, woefully slow, server.

I’ve been with MediaTemple for about 2 weeks now and so far, service has been pretty good. Using their Gridserver package, maybe try it out?

By: Cyndy

Cyndy — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:15:50 +0000

Oh, that’s great; I’m glad to hear it Nick.

I saw your Twitter about Media Temple, though; just for the record, I’ve heard excellent things about them.

By: Nick Momrik

Nick Momrik — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:09:19 +0000

I’ve had a dedicated host in the past when I owned pokerchiptricks.com, but that was because of the bandwidth I needed to provide the videos on the site. My current sites don’t get much traffic at all, it’s the spammers who are killing me.

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll check them out.

By: Cyndy

Cyndy — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:03:12 +0000

Hmm, I think based on that using any typed of shared hosting package could (at least in theory) land you in the same place. Given any thought to a VPS or even a dedicated? Or is that more money than you feel like spending for your lonsey-self?

I’m with Surpass Hosting and I adore them so much. I’d fully recommend them, but regardless of where you decide to go, I’d maybe shoot off something to the sales department and see if they might work something out with you based on what you know your sites are generating (i.e. the comment spam thing, lots of traffic, etc.).

Best of luck, hon!