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2006/12/1-12 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:45409 Activity:nil
11/30   I remember people complaining about http://dreamhost.com on the motd in
        recent months.  What were the complaints?
        \_ You can't run ANY script for over 20-30 seconds or else ALL of
           your processes will get killed, rendering cron and cgi
           useless. Mysql quota may be unlimited but is overloaded so
           takes SECONDS for each simple query. It has been hacked into
           over and over and over again this year, with down time of over
           10 days this year. The servers are way over subscribed (100X
           worse than soda) so keyboard response time lags by seconds.
           You like constant reboots? Every two days if you're lucky.
           Low price, low quality hosting. I'm surprised there hasn't been
           a class action lawsuit yet.
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In addition you can't run any script longer than 30 seconds. They subscribe hundreds of power hungry users on each machine and the load is always consistently above 100, and slow. You can't even run sa-learn and grep because their monitor script will kill all of your processes. Also they do a reboot every other day because they don't know how to keep their system up. Just as an FYI, mail is local and home dirs are remote mounted, so any locking issues would be if you have a procmail or similar script handling your mail. The code is something like this (there can be multiple instances of this perl script running hence the lockfile) open (LOCKFILE, ">lock_file"); Or failing that, openssl or gnupg \_ openssl or gnupg... I'm basically experimenting with a way of using my friend's computer to backup my ...
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"Hello, This is just an email verification for you that we've now closed your Account as you just requested via our web panel. You will no longer receive any bills from us (unless you kept an active domain _registration_ with us) nor other communications. We're very sorry it didn't work out and maybe we'll see you again someday! Sincerely, The UnHappy DreamHost Goodbye Team" \_ If this had you that stressed out you're really in for it when real life smacks you in the face. lock file that keep being recreated even after I keep deleting it. And, until right now, my session would freeze up upon trying to vi a file. forward file didn't seem to help fix the lockfile issue, as I thought that was relating to procmail.
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