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memory issues on my site (continued)
14 years ago
with the help of haxardagron@twitter we've learned some things.
1- mediawiki had some issues and was chewing on memory. so haxar disabled mediawiki which means the inhuman wiki doesn't work right now.
2- that didn't fix it, so the conclusion is that the memory chomper isn't even MY ACCOUNT. it's someone else on the same shared server. and dreamhost had the audacity to tell me it was my bad and "offer to fix it" if i bought a VPS.
screw that!
i'm currently in the process of shopping around for different hosts. with 9 domain names, 3 people, a board, a zencart, 400+ comic pages etc to haul with me it's a bit of a considerable move to make. we need at least 70gb of bandwith per month (the more the better) and at least 20gb of space (again, more is better) and i wish i knew what we needed in terms of memory, but dreamhost is very sly about keeping that out of the eye of the consumer.
i'm also writing to dreamhost in an attempt to get at least a partial refund. i JUST (with the help of you guys buying art) purchased hosting for the next TWO YEARS with them, and now this horsehockey begins. i want that money back so i can take it wherever i wind up moving to.
this sucks because i've used dreamhost since 2006, and they've been pretty solid up til now. :< tydusis suggested the ferengi have taken them over. he might be on to something.
1- mediawiki had some issues and was chewing on memory. so haxar disabled mediawiki which means the inhuman wiki doesn't work right now.
2- that didn't fix it, so the conclusion is that the memory chomper isn't even MY ACCOUNT. it's someone else on the same shared server. and dreamhost had the audacity to tell me it was my bad and "offer to fix it" if i bought a VPS.
screw that!
i'm currently in the process of shopping around for different hosts. with 9 domain names, 3 people, a board, a zencart, 400+ comic pages etc to haul with me it's a bit of a considerable move to make. we need at least 70gb of bandwith per month (the more the better) and at least 20gb of space (again, more is better) and i wish i knew what we needed in terms of memory, but dreamhost is very sly about keeping that out of the eye of the consumer.
i'm also writing to dreamhost in an attempt to get at least a partial refund. i JUST (with the help of you guys buying art) purchased hosting for the next TWO YEARS with them, and now this horsehockey begins. i want that money back so i can take it wherever i wind up moving to.
this sucks because i've used dreamhost since 2006, and they've been pretty solid up til now. :< tydusis suggested the ferengi have taken them over. he might be on to something.
Nooo.... the CORRECT response from Dreamhost would be "We're telling the CPU-chomping fiend to either mend his ways or buy a VPS. If he doesn't buck his ideas up by the end of the week, we're showing him the door."
Though the cynical side of me wonders if this isn't a scheme to get people (who may not know better) to upgrade. In my opinion VPSes are a waste of money anyway -- it's basically shared hosting, but you get the superuser password for your little slice of the server. They're still oversold to oblivion.
<insert disclaimer: grizzled veteran of the industry who hates overselling in all its many evil forms>
ordinarily, they're very helpful and bother to ferret out the cause. but this time they pointedly ignored every request i made (even simple ones like "how do i check the usage? your wiki command didn't work right for me and i've never done this before.") and would point me back to the wiki with the footnote of "you could always buy a VPS!"
blech.
though i legit lol'd.
Well said!
- that didn't fix it, so the conclusion is that the memory chomper isn't even MY ACCOUNT. it's someone else on the same shared server.
So it is a server issue. If it is somebody else's account, then the admin forgot to place a resource limit on that person's account, or it got overridden somehow.
But it does sound like DH is going all Ayn Rand on you.
I've yanked my money from banks long before it became fashionable. It may not hurt them, but I can stop them from hurting ME.
I've been using them for years with a reseller account, which is pretty cool because I can lease out space to other people for hosting.
Something which I actually don't do.
But infinite domains, subdomains, and all sorts of additional support.