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  [mahmud@sitename:~]$ uptime
   00:58:33 up 1 day,  1:55,  3 users,  load average: 0.81, 0.84, 0.97

For the longest time, my idle dreamhost box has never gotten more than 5 days of uptime, and I've never rebooted it. And, btw, it's a dedicated server. If I was paying for this POS it would have been gone ages ago.

Don't use VPS products by "shared host" companies like DreamHost, BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, GoDaddy and other shitty, bottom-feeding slime-balls.

Personally, I have been very happy with Linode, tech.coop, Prgmr, and VPSFarm.

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I've honestly never considered Dreamhost a "shitty, bottom-feeding slime-ball."

In fact, they're one of the companies I admire most. They're up-front, honest, and transparent about everything they do. EVERYTHING.

Downtimes? Reported accurately and constantly. Mail server problems? Same. Accidentally over-charge your customers millions of dollars collectively? They told us about that too, even though similar incidents at other companies were covered up as well as possible.

Seriously, they air their dirty laundry almost faster than they hand out their press releases. It's refreshing.

Now, I wouldn't buy a DreamhostPS from them, no. I've heard about all the downtimes they keep having with them. But even still, they're one of the few companies I KNOW that about - pretty much everone else, I had to guess.

(I'm still with them for my personal website and main email. Their control panel is the best in the business and their customer support is absolutely astonishingly good.)

They are trully honest, but that doesn't really help your site stay up, pingdom is almost spamming my email box with alert from dreamhost downtimes, at least twice a day, I was expecting to have a better service with the VPS, but as I've just learned: very very bad idea.

+1 for Prgmr.

I've been with them for 6 months now and their service has been excellent. I've had no problems with them.

Two separate +1 's to prgmr.com for a work(1G) and personal server(0.5G) respectively. PVGRUB on their new servers lets you boot updated/patched linux kernels without any control panel pick+click from a preset list(AFAIK Slicehost uses that method). More power to the sysadmins. The founder/boss/leadSysadmin is user lsc on news.yc

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