It’s been a fun ride. I love your company’s willingness to be open, with your dreamhoststatus.com page and your awesome blog. However, I can’t take the recent flurry of downtimes, which are just causing me quite a bit of pain.

I’ve been using a service called Montastic to track down time. In the past two months, my site has been down not once, not twice, but eight times (and even, two and three times on the same day).

This is from my gmail account. I get emails from Montastic when the server goes down. And when I do get the email, I go check instantly.

Some of these were hiccups, with it possibly being Montastic’s fault. Though, often they were huge downtimes that really hit my traffic during peak hours. By the way, my web server name was erebus, and I can’t even find postings about it in the past two months on the dreamhost status page.

I can’t really trust Dreamhost like I did back in the days when my web presence wasn’t very important to me. I think it’s still a great starter web host, hiding a lot of the menial tasks of setting up a web server… it’s just that I feel as though I need to move up to something a little bit more… expensive?

I’m thinking Media Temple. I might just go all out and start using Slicehost as my main blog and dev server. I might throw in some Amazon S3 for making my site even faster. Anyone have any ideas?

Edit: Looks like I may possibly be sticking with Dreamhost. I went and played around with MediaTemple for a night, and I didn’t like what I saw. The UI isn’t very clean, as much as Dreamhost was. Maybe I should talk to Dreamhost directly to get a response on these down times…