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And one amazingly epic hacking. Can't forget the amazingly epic hacking. Had tons of people who hosted with them wondering why there was an encoded string added to each of their files. I think a bit of it is still on stackoverflow, and a few other places.

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Wow they really did that? Couldn't they be sued? And well ok I'm not going to be using dreamhost

They didn't do it, someone else did it.

Noctrine wrote:They didn't do it, someone else did it.

oh wow they must have lost a lot of people to that

Loopy wrote:... or or you bill me incorrectly' scenarios...

Holy crap! That is their official blog run by the company?

Ok.... weird...
Well, at least they explained what happened.

Pax.

I <3 that comment thread.

Jackolantern wrote:

Loopy wrote:... or or you bill me incorrectly' scenarios...

Holy crap! That is their official blog run by the company?

Yes, that's official.. and their honesty and transparency into their company does appeal to a lot of people that prefer that over marketing hype and professional "smoke blowing"... including myself. However, they just don't reliably back it up with good service and support. Most of their clientele are attracted by the mass giveaways, but the reality is that most people don't come anywhere close to needing what even the lowest level package of any provider offers.

I work in the industry and a few months ago we ran usage stats across a random section of our customers (approximately 50k clients). Average disk space usage was less than 200MB and average bandwidth usuage over the previous 6 months was 1.2GB.

So in the end, dreamhost is good for what dreamhost is good for.. nothing critical, and nothing that you're not willing to routinely manually backup yourself. If you do that, they're a good deal. If you don't, you'll get burned.

Loopy wrote:Yes, that's official.. and their honesty and transparency into their company does appeal to a lot of people that prefer that over marketing hype and professional "smoke blowing"... including myself. However, they just don't reliably back it up with good service and support.

I really can't help but think that maybe the lax, unprofessional image and the lack of good service and support are related. Maybe I am just old fashioned, but I prefer to trust my business with professional companies who don't make obvious drug use references lol.