Comments on: Why I love DreamHost

By: Kri

Kri — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Somehow I just stumbled upon this post at the Mozillazine Feedhouse. I just wanted to chime in and say that I use Dreamhost as well, and so far I love it. I don’t have any experience with other hosts, but I haven’t had the need to since I’m satisfied with Dreamhost.

By: Paul Paradise

Paul Paradise — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been a pair Networks customer since before Dreamhost existed, and have been generally happy throughout. To address your porn question, I don’t speak for them but I doubt you’d have problems - I’m responsible for the website http://www.paradisemarketing.com, a condom distributor, along with related sites like http://www.vividcondoms.com and even some names with “obscene” domain names, like numbbum.com.

They run a tight ship as far as operations go; I’ve never had a problem with extended downtime. (The only extended outage I think they ever had was when they moved their entire datacenter, and even then they had the machines coming back online in 5-9 hours.) They have an NNTP server available for customers only, with an active community for support, and even the CEO pops in on occassion to help out.

Pair’s biggest problem as I see it is price; they’ve gotten better over time, but DreamHost still blows them out of the water for high-bandwidth sites or for small sites that want a full development environment. If I ever get an idea needing a new account, I’ll probably try DreamHost out, and keep my pair Account for the established sites.

By: zzz

zzz — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oh yeah keep spamming Mozillazine for your personal interests.. Arrgh !!

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

zzz, I provide a feed that only contains my Mozilla-related posts (http://www.squarefree.com/archives/cat_mozilla.rdf). Planet Mozilla uses it. Mozillazine Feedhouse uses my regular feed, so it gets all of my posts.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Lunarpages does 40Gb/month for $7.95, with no restrictions on content as long as it’s legal.

By: Ali Ebrahim

Ali Ebrahim — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

As a pair customer, let me chime in that there’s nothing on your website that would even cause remote problems with pair’s adult website policy.

I’m very satisfied with pair, but at the same time Dreamhost looks very attractive as well.

I agree with Paul that pair’s biggest problem is its price points. I’ve had zero problems with them, and my server hasn’t had any downtime since May 2003, which is not bad, as far as I can tell.

I’ve been thinking about getting a Dreamhost account to serve random media files from and set up custom DNS so that a subdomain of ebrahim.org gets pointed at a Dreamhost account, but I don’t have a need for this yet.

For all my friends who are looking for hosting but who don’t want to pay the price premium that comes with pair, Dreamhost is the first place I send them. I would have probably signed up with Dreamhost myself (because its so cheap), but I discovered it after I was already set up with pair, and while pair is a little pricey, it isn’t breaking the bank, so I never really felt a compulsion to switch.

For those who are keeping score, my previous host, Network Solutions sucks badly in pretty much every respect. Don’t host domains with them, and don’t give them your business.