DreamHost In-Depth (was Re: Dreamhost?)

[Bill Marriott]

Update:

- Although people have had success with Rev CGI on DreamHost, I was not able 
to get it to work (using a variety of engines and following the steps that 
I've received in email and from the Use-Rev archive). It seems to be 
dependent on the particular server you're on, whether it will work or not.

- Support has not gotten back to me in less than 36 hrs for the four help 
requests I've made since my earlier post.

- Speed of FTP uploads/downloads never improved, in fact they bogged down 
even more since I made my last post. Uploads got as slow as 300KB/sec.

- Everything DreamHost has been down since around 6:30pm Eastern today. My 
email, my website, even their own home page and control panel. Seems they 
are no more reliable than my previous provider. :( Looks like I'll be going 
back to my prior host, ChiHost.com. (I was able to use Rev CGI on ChiHost, 
no problem.)

"Bill Marriott" <wjm at wjm.org> wrote in message 
news:e94ep7$hlt$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> 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.