{"id":8425,"date":"2006-09-07T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/fuck-dreamhost\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:49","slug":"fuck-dreamhost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/fuck-dreamhost\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuck DreamHost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ware.com\/products\/pdf\/8006_DS_040406UD.pdf\">3Ware 8006-2LP<\/a> (warning, PDF) hardware RAID controller to be put in the server formerly known as <tt>bornslippy.nuxx.net<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going back to Waveform. I&#8217;m fed up with DreamHost&#8217;s bullshit. Specifically, how processes are killed after either a certain amount of time or load. The result is that Google is incapable of downloading a full sitemap, some pages of my Gallery don&#8217;t load, MediaWiki falls over sometimes, I can&#8217;t do a backup using rsync over ssh, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I&#8217;m still within the DreamHost 97-day money back guarantee thing, so I&#8217;m going to try and get the server running at Waveform in that time, then get the year&#8217;s payment refunded. If they won&#8217;t do it, I&#8217;ll initiate a charge back.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck them. Their service doesn&#8217;t live up to what the site claims, the downtime was ridiculous, and everything is just <em>slow<\/em>. Someone tell me why an <tt>ls<\/tt> should take 2.45 seconds, and why checksumming a few hundred meg file should take an hour?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I just purchased two 320GB disks for my G5, and I can use the 160GBs from it in a mirror in the new server.<\/p>\n<p>< sigh ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ordered a 3Ware 8006-2LP (warning, PDF) hardware RAID controller to be put in the server formerly known as bornslippy.nuxx.net. Why? It&#8217;s going back to Waveform. I&#8217;m fed up with DreamHost&#8217;s bullshit. Specifically, how processes are killed after either a certain amount of time or load. The result is that Google is incapable of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13204,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions\/13204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}