DreamHost… Again…
August 3, 2006
So, I’m in a bit of a tough spot. I’m trying to figure out what to do about DreamHost. I haven’t heard anything back from my support ticket with them, so I’m pricing out options to get my server back in colocation with Waveform.
My current thought is to replace the likely-to-fail-soon 5x 120GB ATA-6 drive assembly (running software RAID1 and RAID 0+1 via GEOM) with a 3ware 8006-2LP and a pair of fairly commodity (probably WD or Seagate) SATA drives.
Total cost for this will be around US$300, plus resumption of US$50/mo colocation payments.
Gur. I don’t know what to do. I want to stick it out and see if DH gets better, but if I need to build an entire server and move things back to it, I need to get going soon.
What kind of problems are you having?
See, here. Also, at one point I had the same query take 1 minute 25.95 seconds.
Things seem better now, but because my whole site is DB-backed it made the site unusable.
Interesting, I’ve had NO problems with the Mysql swrver, but have experanced a lot of downtime and less then average performance from the web server. I’m hoping they get things cleaned up soon.
Sorry, forgot to login on the above message :-)
No problem. :)
From what I’m seeing, things with dreamhost appear great again. My understanding is that they were having problems with some of the disk devices which many things are shared through via NFS. Also, there were some serious internal bandwidth issues which were causing the aforementioned DB slowness.
But I guess it wasn’t affecting all DB servers nor hosts.
Which box is you DB on? I’m on aslan and my home directories are on jawbreaker.