So long, DreamHost
Next week my DreamHost account expires.
I don't recall exactly how I first heard of DreamHost, but I'm pretty sure that a lot of the blogs and sites I read used them for hosting. I had bounced between a number of different hosts for my sites, but found none that was reliable and had gobs of space. DreamHost filled the bill.
Unbelievably, that was 5 years ago now.
The problems with DreamHost are almost always exaggerated on their blog and others' blogs. But sometimes those descriptions of what's going on are accurate. My sites would occasionally go offline for a while, come back, and support would have no clue what was happening. Or mySQL would die - no idea why. Little things like that.
But I soldiered on. I stuck with them as I thought, still, they had offered me a good deal. The uptime wasn't great, but hey, it was fairly cheap.
I wish I could say, "And then, the most AWFUL THING EVER happened!" but that's not the case. I simply experienced another big outage - email this time, then web - and didn't want to deal with it anymore. I shopped around a bit and moved everything off of DreamHost late last year. I'm extremely happy with Pair, my host for everything now.
It's a little thing to be sure. There are many larger decisions in life. But not having to deal with random site outages with no explanation, random things going wrong, and the like is worth my saving money at Pair. Pair's been cheaper (!), far more reliable, and more like a Real Company. That works for me.
It's been a good run, DreamHost. Thanks.
