I have a dedicated server with Dreamhost which in my opinion is the worst host out there (have been with them for 6 years so I can talk), down time almost every month do to problems that always reacur, in fact their entire network was down for 24 hours last weekend, guess how much money I made that day - nothing!
A big problem they have is they do not own their own data center so they are at the mercy of the bulding they rent, they don't own their UPS or generators either and the list goes on. In fact as I type 3 of my databases are either down or having problems.
Check the Dreamhost problems from their very own blog, it's good reading: http://blog.dreamhost.com
Also, they have never or will they ever have phone support nor will they ever own their data center so I must move on, I should have done this years ago.
I have learned from this though, my next dedicated host MUST own their own data center.
With this being said I am starting my search, I will start with liquidweb, they own their own state of the art data center along with UPS, generators etc. and I hear good things from them, check it out: https://www.liquidweb.com/about/datacenter.htm
Not sure on the 50/50 bandwidth thing, will have to check into that, any other hosts that own their own data center that you would recomend? |
