{"id":1644,"date":"2007-03-03T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T00:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2103"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:55:28","slug":"dreaming-on-dreamhost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/dreaming-on-dreamhost\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming on DreamHost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ISP of choice for the last 2+ years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/rewards.cgi?rbrockerhoff\">DreamHost<\/a>, has been having a string of bad luck the last few months. Server outages, power problems, you-name-it. As usual, lots of people complained and some even switched providers. Then DreamHost&#8217;s CEO posted a self-confessed <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dreamhost.com\/2007\/02\/28\/super-lame-apology\/\">super-lame apology<\/a> in their characteristically snarky style; <a href=\"http:\/\/waffle.wootest.net\/2007\/03\/03\/on-dreamhost\/\">Jesper<\/a> summed it, and the majority of user&#8217;s feelings, up pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>I must say I&#8217;m more relaxed about this. They (or at least the server I&#8217;m on) have, on the average over the last two years, had less downtime than the ISP I used before for longer than that &#8211; one that was 2 minutes away from my home, run by personal friends, yet in the end couldn&#8217;t do what I needed to. They&#8217;re located in a convenient place very near (in ping time) to my user base. They offer all the technical conveniences I need. Their bandwidth and space limits are so ridiculously large I never worry about them. And best of all, they&#8217;re inexpensive &#8211; with the rewards program those 2+ years have so far cost me about $200, and I still have almost that much in credit; if this goes on, I never will have to pay them again. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/rewards.cgi?rbrockerhoff\">Click here to sign up<\/a> and I&#8217;ll get yet another reward! Thank you!) Yes, if I had a high-traffic e-commerce site that needed 100% 24\/7 availability I would probably host it elsewhere. And pay at least 10 times as much. Make that 20. Or 50&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ISP of choice for the last 2+ years, DreamHost, has been having a string of bad luck the last few months. Server outages, power problems, you-name-it. As usual, lots of people complained and some even switched providers. Then DreamHost&#8217;s CEO posted a self-confessed super-lame apology in their characteristically snarky style; Jesper summed it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-qw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}