yes I did. And I understand some people may take offense to my comments about dreamhost, It is only my experience, I am sure dreamhost has been great for some people, I may have just been unlucky, hopefully no one else will have to go through what I did with dreamhost.
best of luck to everyone with there hosting.

Quote:I understand some people may take offense to my comments about dreamhost

I don't think anyone took offense, what you related in your post was *your* experience, and as such, you have every right to post that in this forum. I think that others that posted their own experiences were merely interested in providing a balanced view and showing that not everyone's first contact with DreamHost is as problematic as yours seems to have been.

Quote:best of luck to everyone with there hosting.

You too, I hope everything works out well for you.

Mark

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i think the process of transitioning to a new host is going to be a pain-intheass for anybody. Its lot of details to get right. and thats not including the sign-up process which sometimes has snags.

I think you're mostly angry because you've lost some money in the few days that your site was offline. I would suggest that you consider yourself blessed that you've made a lot of money i the past with your website.

Cheers!

I don't claim to have any specific answers here, but I transitioned four sites from GoDaddy to DreamHost during a month when my Webmaster was on hiatus. I'm a tech writer and talk show host, but I'm not an expert Web coder.

I did, however, anticipate possible glitches in establishing new accounts, so I allowed extra time for everything to work before migrating my sites, which include MySQL databases for WordPress, along with vBulletin and SMF message boards.

With proper preparation, everything went pretty well. The account I set up with PayPal took a bit longer to clear, but a letter to support got that resolved.

I also needed a tiny amount of hand-holding for the database migration, but everything worked out quite well. Certainly the sites went back up with few noticeable glitches, and those were wiped away within a half hour or so.

However, I retained my hosting accounts at GoDaddy for roughly one to two weeks (depending on the site) before canceling them. I didn't want anything to go down, beyond the normal issues of switching to a different DNS setup.

I would certainly recommend that anyone who wants to move a site they depend on for income should prepare for the worst, and even the possibility you'll have to go back to your old host, if only temporary, before things settle down.

Peace,
Gene Steinberg
http://www.macnightowl.com

$79 was your initial payment. Your dedicated server will cost you $1800 per year, and your DreamHost account, assuming it was level 1 on a monthly payment plan, would only cost you $170 per year. I signed up for the Level 1 plan for a whole year with a discount code my friend gave me, and guess what? I only paid $23 dollars for the first year. That's quite a bargain, don't you think?

I'm not flaming you, just telling you that you made a pretty bad choice of getting an entire dedicated server. DreamHost is far superior to every other host I've used, and that's quite a handful. You're paying fifteen times as much monthly for your dedicated server. Oh well, you went with them instead, so you might as well enjoy editing all sorts of configuration files for different system services and occasionally getting your box exploited if you don't configure it securely.