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DreamFAIL

I have no issues with DreamHost’s service. Before I moved to a VPS provider, I was with them for all of my hosting. They had provided (and still do provide) great service and reliability for a shared host. Customer service for the most part is excellent, and gets things done in usually 5 minutes to an hour.

But when your signup form begs you not to leave, then you better run as fast as you can.

When trying to close the page:

  1. An alert appears.
  2. A confirmation dialog appears.
  3. If you hit Cancel, the “live chat” appears.
  4. Trying to close the “live” chat yields another confirmation box.

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While I’m at it, might as well join the parade:
jacob@codechunk:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ |sort -rn|head
108 sudo
56 cd
36 tail
35 ls
31 svi
28 vi
19 screen
19 fg
17 ckbw
14 htop

svi = sudo vim
ckbw = script to check bandwidth on an apache site.

There you have it.

2 Responses

  1. tab said on 12 Apr 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Just amazing

  2. volksman said on 15 Apr 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Can you post more on your Apache ckbw script? I’d be interested to know what it tracks and how.

    Thanks!

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