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DREAMHOST Worst host evar

3 December 2008 | 3:24 am by codeboxer

Dreamhost is also pretty crappy, if you need Ruby on Rails support. Why does everyone advertise RoR and then not support it?

It looks like a decent Hostmonster style host, with a snazzy interface, but at the end of it here were the problems:

Terrible SVN support; let me say that again - SVN kind of sucks already, but I ended up with a bunch of 500 errors, and I don't need anyone to help SVN suck more than it already does.

SOME good wiki stuff, but it was out of date, was NOT supported (see above), so I got frustratingly 80% close to a real capistrano deploy and then could not finish because were server compatibility issues (an old Ruby version) and without direct shell access I was fecocked. Then my SVN got corrupted. Fun!

With Dreamhost, if you aren't paying for a hosting service, you can't even manage your domain forwarding.

So I am still on the lookout for a good Ruby host and I am not any closer.

As a recap - DREAMHOST is the worst Ruby on Rails hosting service EVER! They are, of course, right there next to Joyent, who also has a large home in Crapistan.

JOYENT IS THE WORST

2 December 2008 | 9:16 pm by codeboxer

CONTRARY TO ANYTHING I HAVE SAID PREVIOUSLY, Joyent offers some of the worst customer service around. JOYENT has no idea what is going on. They don't even read the support tickets, their documentation is old and useless. They are a dinosaur.
I imagine their clients are all catching on right now and starting to jump off of that sinking ship. I pulled my last account off of this horrible Rails hosting service this year, I will NEVER go back.

I hate bad service. Bad value, too.