Comments on: mmm techie fun http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/03/08/mmm-techie-fun/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/03/08/mmm-techie-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-14993 Sean P Aune Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:02:27 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=976#comment-14993 Actually, DreamHost was, well, a dream about it. Didn't try to sell me anything. They emailed me back said "Your server looks to be loading too heavily, would you like us to move you to a different server, it will cause 2 - 48 hours of downtime while the new DNS propagates." I said sure, they did it, was far less than 2 - 48 hours and I am seeing notably faster loading times on all my sites. Both my accounts were on the same servers, they moved both accounts to totally different servers. The work account is already their highest end account below a dedicated server, but this one (which also handles BAMForBeginners.com and a few others) is their lowest end. They actually impressed me with how fast, and painlessly, they handled it. Actually, DreamHost was, well, a dream about it. Didn’t try to sell me anything. They emailed me back said “Your server looks to be loading too heavily, would you like us to move you to a different server, it will cause 2 – 48 hours of downtime while the new DNS propagates.” I said sure, they did it, was far less than 2 – 48 hours and I am seeing notably faster loading times on all my sites.

Both my accounts were on the same servers, they moved both accounts to totally different servers. The work account is already their highest end account below a dedicated server, but this one (which also handles BAMForBeginners.com and a few others) is their lowest end.

They actually impressed me with how fast, and painlessly, they handled it.

]]> By: Luis http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/03/08/mmm-techie-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-14989 Luis Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:48:51 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=976#comment-14989 Did they give you the normal BS about "you should switch to a more expensive hosting plan?" They seem congenitally unable to deal with server load problems without pushing that on you. It's especially annoying since the load problems are usually due to them overselling space on a server (usually with your account demanding so little of the server's storage and CPU cycles), and/or them not policing accounts that run huge numbers of scripts and hog the server time. But 2-48 hours of possible downtime? I presume that's because the DNS on the new server won't necessarily resolve everywhere immediately and inj the meantime you still have the server load issues on the original server... but if it's not, then it's a crock. Did they give you the normal BS about “you should switch to a more expensive hosting plan?” They seem congenitally unable to deal with server load problems without pushing that on you. It’s especially annoying since the load problems are usually due to them overselling space on a server (usually with your account demanding so little of the server’s storage and CPU cycles), and/or them not policing accounts that run huge numbers of scripts and hog the server time.

But 2-48 hours of possible downtime? I presume that’s because the DNS on the new server won’t necessarily resolve everywhere immediately and inj the meantime you still have the server load issues on the original server… but if it’s not, then it’s a crock.

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