Comments on: Why I switched to Dreamhost

By: Elliot Swan » Visual PageRank View

Elliot Swan » Visual PageRank View — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:34:09 +0000

[...] Visual PageRank View–Cool little tool. Except now after using it, I see how messed up my PR really is. Look for yourself. “Why I switched to Dreamhost” is a PR 6, but my homepage is only 3? Wha..? [...]

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:12:51 +0000

So much nakedness…It’s surprising how many sites are still useable like this.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:50:00 +0000

Congrats on the switch to dreamhost! I’m still really happy that I switched. I just realized I didn’t have your feed in my bloglines and hadn’t seen your site in a while. For some reason when I was setting up for CSS Naked Day I remembered Adam Sandler’s “Stop Looking at me, SWAN!” quote from Billy Madison and I remembered that I hadn’t been keeping up. Glad to see you’re naked too.

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:42:33 +0000

@Oliver: I’m liking them so far. I did have to change some of my includes (dreamhost doesn’t do includes by url, have to use paths), and I’ve noticed that often it takes longer from the time an email is sent through the email form to the time it gets to my inbox, I’m guessing because more emails are being sent out through dreamhost or something.

Support has responded fairly quickly for the amount of requests they get (I’ve gotten responses within a few hours). When I setup my free dreamhosters subdomain, it took a lot longer to set up than they said, but when I registered another domain I believe it was ready for use the same day. Databases often take a day before they are finished being set up, though.

All in all, and fairly happy and glad I’m using them. All I have to do is just think about that bandwidth…

By: Oliver Zheng

Oliver Zheng — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:58:31 +0000

I’ve been looking around for a good solid host too, as mine will dry up in a month. Keep us updated on the host — any trouble or problems you are having. Dreamhost is at the top of my list for the new host and I’ll definitely remember to use that coupon!

By: leisa

leisa — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:43:06 +0000

hear hear.
i’ve been with Dreamhost for about a year now, and they’re great.
i recommend them to all my friends (but always forget that special code thing… note to self!)

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:52:32 +0000

that reminds me… have you voted for them to add a live streaming server?

Don’t remember…I’ll have to check.

By: karpa-diem (Jake Garrison)

karpa-diem (Jake Garrison) — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:43:33 +0000

that reminds me… have you voted for them to add a live streaming server?

By: karpa-diem (Jake Garrison)

karpa-diem (Jake Garrison) — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:29:33 +0000

DreamHost, It is good

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:01:06 +0000

By the way, the link to Elliot Swan Designs in your footer isn’t functional. You’re missing “.com” at the end. Just thought I’d let you know.

Whoops. I should probably fix that..