Finally Moved to DreamHost

I finally moved Shivaranjan.com to DreamHost web hosting. My previous web hosting was was good but their mysql server was a screwed up one. Most of the time I would always get a message which would say “Mysql went away”. This was brought to their notice many times but I felt that they did not take any action to resolve it.

Why DreamHost?

Far the past three weeks I was doing lot of research on web hosting and finally zeroed in these web hosting companies:

DreamHost
Media Temple
Blue Host
Hostgator

I was already using Dreamhost for Blogg-buzz which is working good till now. John earlier was using some very crap hosting where he faced lot of downtime and sometime back he also moved to DreamHost. Quickonine Tips another popular high traffic technology blog is also hosted on DreamHost, they even put a post that ultimately made my mind to go with DreamHost.

How much downtime did I face?

The total downtime that I faced was close to 13 hours and now my blog is up and running very well.

If you have any issues with my blog please let me know so that I can fix it as quickly as possible.

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7 Responses to “Finally Moved to DreamHost”

ReviewSaurus on October 12th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Congrats on the move. I’ve heard quite a good thing about dreamhost…so keep posts rolling in
Shivaranjan on October 12th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

Thanks buddy.
In future may be if I start receiving very good amount of traffic say around 10k unique vistiors per day then I will move to Media Temple.
Aseem Kishore on October 13th, 2007 at 2:28 am

I currently use Bluehost and it’s OK, not fabulous or anything. Anyone else use Bluehost? Shivaranjan, how complicated was the switch over? What did you have to do???

Thanks!
Nirmal on October 14th, 2007 at 11:55 am

Congrats on the move. Aseem, I’m also using Bluehost and believe me I have 99.9% uptimes in the last 2 months after the move. I monitor using Pingdom service.
Shivaranjan on October 14th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

Nirmal-
Thanks buddy. Looks like you are shelling out quite a lot for pingdom service. Any free service that can do this?
Nirmal on October 14th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

@Shivaranjan,
I didnt shell out any money for Pingdom. They gave away some 100 free accounts for one year for some celebration. I too got one.
Kamesh on March 10th, 2008 at 3:19 am

So, any thoughts on Bluehost vs. Dreamhost? My Bluehost contract is up soon and I would love to hear what made you decide on Dreamhost instead. And I second the request for info on how you made the switch.

Thank you for the interesting post, Shivaranjan.

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