DreamHost In-Depth (was Re: Dreamhost?)

[Bill Marriott]

1) Well what DO you get in SF? Data, please :) I'm just reporting the 
facts... six transfers of a large compressed file (3 up, 3 down) at 
different times of day. Could have something to do with me being in Detroit, 
not "next door" to DreamHost's LAX datacenter.

2) What is bulk-loading a list of space-delimited email aliases going to do 
for me? Where do I bulk-load them to? Doesn't this still require that a) I 
compose a list of all the aliases I've used over the years and b) update and 
upload that list every time I cook up a new alias? It's hard to beat going 
to a site and just typing "thissite(at)wjm.org" -- zero administration.

3) They claim the reason for not allowing Spam Assassin to work with 
catch-all addresses is it "generates" too much spam... but the truth is the 
spam already exists, it's just dropped when there is no mailbox for it to go 
to. It's very easy to set the aging on your Spam folder to dump messages 
after 7 days, 5 days, or what-have-you. And I really loathe having to go to 
Web Mail to confirm my spam.

I'm not saying DreamHost is a bad hosting service. I'm just pointing out the 
nitty-gritty things that don't work for me... things you can't find out 
until you actually sign up and use a service. I believe I also said several 
nice things about them.

DreamHost did finally get back to me on the open tickets, including one 
about the Spam Assassin config. They basically said I had a good point and 
that I should post a "suggestion" to see if it got any votes, and b) that I 
could install my own copy of Spam Assassin in my domain(s) and configure it 
on my own. I will look into the second option (though the instructions are a 
little cryptic for me).


"Stephen Barncard" 
<stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com> wrote in message 
news:p06230900c0db3b4d615c@[192.168.1.103]...
> >
>>* Transfer speed
>>   - My previous host maxes out my cable modem during transfers in either
>>direction. Using FileZilla (excellent free FTP client) I get uploads 
>>around
>>90+ KB/sec and downloads around 95KB/sec to 100KB/sec with my 8000K/768K
>>Comcast connection. DreamHost never went above 70KB/sec uploading and was 
>>an
>>anemic 650KB/sec to 700KB/sec when downloading.
>
> That's not what I get here in san francisco - consistent fast.
>
> And you can bulk-load a space delimited list of email aliases and 
> addresses to forward to, you don't need a lot of mailboxes to do what you 
> mentioned below.
>
> I manage over 50 email aliases. Easy. As far as IMAP, I'm sure you can 
> work that out with support.
>
> I stand by my support of Dreamhost.
>
>
>
> sqb
>
>>
>>
>>   - DreamHost allows "catch-all" addresses as above, and it offers
>>SpamAssassin, but not BOTH. You cannot enable SpamAssassin on any account
>>which has a catch-all address! This means I'm now receiving all the junk
>>email that in the past was being filtered out for me. I can tell you it's
>>very unpleasant. To get around this, I will have to set up discreet email
>>addresses for all those runrev@, apple@, microsoft@, and so on addresses. 
>>I
>>probably have 200 of them at this point, some of which I don't even
>>remember. I'll also have to set up a corresponding account within my email
>>client to check each of those discreet addresses. Not only does that make 
>>it
>>much harder to implement my previous scheme -- instead of just typing the
>>address and knowing it will get to me, I have to type the address and
>>configure two accounts, one on the server and one on the client (15 
>>minutes
>>wasted) -- but checking for email would take much longer as my client 
>>walks
>>through each address/alias.
>
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> stephen barncard
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