DreamHost Promo Codes Useless
May 7, 2008
I was about to recommend Dream Host to someone. Normaly I just say goto DreamHost.com and enter this promo code ...
Well when I went to the site to see what the package was, a "Sales Robot" came up with a $50 off link. It filled in the promo code spot. Not with my code, but with theirs.
I'm not sure how everyone else feels about this, but I consider it stealing commissions. It's one thing if the link didn't affect my being able to be the referer, but it's a whole nother game when promo codes override the referral credit. Since they use promo codes to track the referral, this really is switching the referral.
Now their website says you can use the promo codes OR a link, it doesn't say anywhere you have to use both. So even if this bot doesn't come up when there is a referral link, it's *still* stealing.
So - what are your thoughts, and has this been happening all along? Does this explain why I've only received 2 referrals when I mention it all the time to my readers?
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Oct 11, 2008
Just looking for opinions on which offer you guys would take... and why, please.
LiquidWeb
$50 Monthly - VPS Basic
Dual AMD Opteron 2212
50 Gigabytes Storage
400 GB Transfer
512 MB RAM Guaranteed
4 IP Addresses
Linux - CentOS 4
Cpanel/WHM
Fantastico/XController
WiredTree
$44.10 Monthly - VPS 384
Intel Dual Xeon Harpertown
40 GB RAID-10 Disk Space
600 GB Bandwidth
384 MB Guaranteed SLM RAM
4 Dedicated IPs
cPanel/WHM
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Apr 14, 2009
I would like to be able to cause my server to show each error code from 404, to 501 etc and to run though the list and to show me what appears, is there a tool or a online tool that can do this?
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Apr 30, 2009
Is there any service out there that provides a method for a registration to have phone activation codes? Basically the user would enter their phone number as part of a submission form, and the service would phone that number giving a code, then they have to enter that code to validate the rest of the process. Kinda like paypal.
Does anything like this exist, and is it affordable?
Captchas just don't cut it anymore, I'm thinking of consolidating all of my forums/services into one main account system, and use phone activation + a series of advanced captchas or something. This would also make it easier to ban as I would just perma ban the phone number too.
Any other idea to 1: stop bots, 2: perma ban someone? (need a unique piece of ID that can be validated)
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Jan 19, 2009
I purchased one of ConnectSwitch's New Year plans two weeks ago. All was great to start of with. My VPS was set up within an hour of signing up and I paid my first months bill.
I sent a support ticket to them on the 5th of January asking them to enable iptables modules so that I can set up the firewall. I was told that this would be looked into as the Kernel was compiled without iptables, and Sam Smith, CEO would look into it. I had to keep sending more support ticket updates asking them for a status, didn't get much back from them though! Two weeks later, still nothing!
Absolutely terrible technical support, and I will even upload a screenshot of the ticket dialogue if anyone is interested.
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Apr 23, 2009
As I read more and more posts and discussions I'm coming to these two conclusions related to server attacks:If attack is relatively small you can fight it with iptables/csf/apf.
If attack is big nor software nor hardware firewalls can really help.
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Dec 10, 2008
I've always used this forum when looking for web hosts and the need recently arose to find two new VPS's and a dedicated server.
So, found a couple of good looking ones, signed up straight away with servInt ( and very happy! ) and also signed up at iWeb.
I only got a shared package to see how their service was - and I've been appalled.
I've REALLY wanted to like them, but they keep letting themselves down.
I was drawn in by the 100% uptime claim, which of course turned out to be untrue.
Several of the website monitoring clients I had running shows the site as down on 2 occasions - but I can live with that. Everybody has downtime.
The other thing was a simple question regarding the shared plan I had signed up for. I asked: "Can I have multiple dedicated SSL certificates per shared account, eg a certificate per domain".
I was told by live support, Yes. I was surprised and so signed up!
Surprise surprise, I can't do that on an addon domain. So I open a ticket at 2008-11-13 22:26:11 asking if it's something I've done that is making it screw up. I get a response at 2008-11-14 17:27:39 saying they will add an IP to the account for it to work.
On the 2008-11-15 15:55:47 they reply again, saying I can only install a certificate on my root domain...oh, so not what Live support said when I signed up! They also say I will still be able to access [url]- but as we all know, a certificate for [url]will show as untrusted for [url]. And I was told in the first place that I could have more than 1 certificate per account.
I reply 2 days later when I am able to, asking whether it would appear as trusted, and recieve a prompt reply at 2008-11-17 18:10:54 from support saying they will switch my domains round to allow me to install 1 certificate on [url]straight away.
I say go for it at 2008-11-17 18:17:34, and recieve a reply at 2008-11-17 19:23:21 saying it has been transferred to the advanced level of support.
THEN, 2 days later at 2008-11-19 20:55:02 I recieve the following reply:
You should now be able to go in the security -> SSL section of your Panelbox account and input the certificates for your domain. We did not have to switch your primary / addon domains after all.
It took 2 days for that?! I had by this point decided that the lack of ssl certs on the test sites were hurting sales so moved them to the servint server.
I asked about the SSL certs later, the first reply kinda indicated that I could have lots of SSL certs, and the second said something completely different.
Me: So are you saying that any domain can have its OWN SSL certificate?
iWeb: Yes, as long as you have purchased one for each domain at your SSL provider.
Me: Are there any additional charges? Last time I tried this (I added a SSL certificate to an addon domain), it
didn't work? Why do you think that was?
iWeb: Unfortunataly, you cannot have any more SSL certificate on your Hosting currently.
As i have already said, you will need to merge to a Reseller account. If you want to do this, please login to your customer hub available on [url]and then click on your account. After that, you will need to click on the "Upgrade or downgrade" button and then choose the "Reseller Mega Site".
I may just be making a fuss here, but while there is 1 staff member who knew what he was saying (Kevin Archambault), the others did seem to confuse me by telling me over live chat at various points that I could add more, or that I'd need to change my primary domain, or that I wouldn't, or anything.
I asked for a refund and account cancellation on live chat and they told me to go Finances>Renewable Products> Refund to both cancel the account AND get a refund.
This was on 2008-12-06 15:14:10, haven't heard anything yet except another invoice reminder on the Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:05 PM, and a staff member telling me my account has not been cancelled. I did leave it late to cancel but followed web-chat's advice, clicked what they told me to click and have now been invoiced for another month (my package renews on the 9th). Surely 3 days was enough?
Anyone from iWeb here want to help me out?
I do WANT to like your services as you've got some great deals but your support has not inspired confidence.
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Sep 18, 2009
URL: http://www.boxvps.com
Their recent promotion thread:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=889733
Extremely non-professional service. Took them 48 hours to setup my VPS. Also had to create a support ticket. And when it was finally delivered, there was no DirectAdmin on it. Specially disturbing, since I actually paid for a monthly license.
Not to mention that their responses are very vague. They claim to apply the promotions (triple disk space, double bandwidth) 24 hours after they setup the VPS. I have no idea why they do that.
Moreover, they have false advertising on their VPS page (Instant Activation..where it should read 'We don't activate your VPS unless you create a support ticket).
A speedtest from the VPS showed that the VPS is capable of bursting to a maximum of 10mbps, while average speed is barely 2mbps.
Stay away from these guys. They're potential scammers. They WILL scam.. sooner or later.
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Mar 23, 2008
This has been happening for about 6 months, someone has been exploiting my windows server and causing 300 php.exe processes to run, therefore making the CPU usage go to 100% and cause all php sites to not function. It is a perl script, and I had gotten ahold of the explot, but am unsure how to block it,
what the following is doing, and how to block it.. once I find the script again I will add it to the post..
I am using Plesk on my box.
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Jul 15, 2015
If I go into the Backup Manager, then click the "Personal FTP Repository", then click "Personal FTP Repository Settings", at the bottom it asks for a password and says how important it is to use a password.
So, I specify a password, then successfully do a backup to a remote FTP site.
But when I examine the backup.zip file at the remote FTP site, it a plain ZIP file that you can open without any password!!!
How is this secure, what's the point of asking us to specify a password when it's not used to password lock the backed up ZIP file?
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Nov 9, 2012
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Sep 8, 2007
Recently I had a "falling out" with DreamHost. I had their downtime and everything everyone else experiences, and I was ok with that. I could look past the small problems and love DreamHost for the good things it offered. The good cheap things(Shared Hosting).
I was running a small video blog(externally hosted videos) with WordPress as my street pimp. Everything was going great. It started out slow, as most sites do, but I was really happy to be seeing 1.5-5K unique hits daily. This went on for a good 2 months lovely. I was very satisfied. Well one day I became "Mr Big" and hit 12K in about 10 hours. DreamHost quickly turned my account off, as I was affecting the other sites on the server that I shared. Understandable. Well they eventually referred me to their VPS (dreamhostps.com)and I quickly signed up, thinking I had just solved all my problems.
Haha, what a lying **** she turned out to be. Promising me love and compassion, but only bringing deceit and pain. Spending an extra $25/mo(250 MB/250 MHz guaranteed) I thought I was golden.
Now I cant get 50 uniques an hour without getting a Internal Server Error. WHY DREAMHOST?! WHY MUST YOU HATE ME??
Im currently looking to get away from DH. I cant stand these problems. I need something that can withstand 15K unique hits on a mildly modified WP site serving external videos. What are my options?
I guess I should also include my budget... which isnt much at all. Im not going above $50/mo, but would love to get something around $35-45.
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Oct 31, 2009
I spent an afternoon completely away from computers, and when I got back, I received this email from the Dreamhost Security Bot:
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We have noticed your myacct user causing a large amount of load on the webserver. We also noticed that domains under this user are running outdated web software that may be hackable. Often times when domains get hacked the hackers will launch malicious processes that use a great deal of CPU time and thus increase the load on the machine caused by your user. This does not necessarily mean that your sites are hacked, but they could be. To ensure that your user is not compromised and contributing to server load unnecessarily (and, also not engaging in illegal activity typically associated with these types of hacks) we ask that you review the following and act accordingly.
Comment: so far, so good
Most commonly hacking exploits of this nature occur through known vulnerabilities in outdated copies of web software (blogs, galleries, carts, wikis, forums, CMS scripts, etc.) running under your domains. To secure your sites you should:
1) Update all pre-packaged web software to the most recent versions available from the vendor. The following site can help you determine if you're running a vulnerable version:
[url]
Joomla (v1.5.8) : /home/myacct/disabled site.net/ (OUTDATED!)
I disabled this site six months ago.
Joomla (v1.5.12) : /home/myacct/joomla1512site.com/ (OUTDATED!)
There were three of these
WordPress (v2.8.4) : /home/myacct/wp284site.org/ (OUTDATED!)
There were six of these
- WordPress installations need to be updated to the current release of 2.8.5.
- Joomla installations need to be updated to the respective current secure release: 1.0.15 or 1.5.14.
- Any old/outdated/archive installations that you do not intend to maintain need to be deleted from the server.
The (OUTDATED!) domains above have been disabled by renaming the domain directory to end in "_DISABLED_FOR_POSSIBLE_EXPLOIT__CONTACT_DREAMHOST". Please do not reinstate them until you are ready to immediately upgrade them, or until you have already upgraded them.
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So, nine of my sites were disabled, for a period of four hours, with NO ADVANCE WARNING from Dreamhost.
I send them a response, pointing out that:
1. I run a tripwire program, integrit, on a daily basis. It showed no evidence that any of these sites had been hacked.
2. My access logs showed no increase in activity on this date.
They wrote, "We have noticed your myacct user causing a large amount of load on the webserver." Well, I certainly would like some details on this, but I haven't received any.
Here's part of the response I got:
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In the case of some of the domains that were disabled your softwares were
years out-of-date.
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no. Wordpress 2.8.4 was released August 12, 2009. Joomla 1.5.12 was released July 1, 2009. The only software that was "years" out of date was on two sites that had been disabled by me six months ago.
It's clear that these people are making things up as they go along. All they really had to do was send me a note saying, "Hey, Bob, could you update these Wordpress and Joomla sites sometime in the next few days?"
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Mar 10, 2006
Which is one is better?? MidPhase.com or Dreamhost.. i need lot of bandwidth with fair price.
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Jan 5, 2009
Just read about some deal they're having where they're selling you a domain and 2 years of unlimited bandwidth hosting for 24 dollars or so. Is this legit?
Is quality sacrificed for this kind of pricing?
I'm currently with downtownhost and they are amazing by the way but if it's that cheap, I might be forced to switch.
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Mar 4, 2009
it says domain is already in system. it seems the previous guy was hosting it on dreamhost.
basically they said I can't host this domain, and that i have to pay extra to have it added.
anyway to circumvent this?
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Aug 4, 2005
Does anyone know the path on Dreamhost for ASPELL, or if they have it at all?
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May 16, 2006
i have decide to buy hosting plan on dreamhost with a discount coupon of 24$ per year, i want to know whether this offer is valid for year or for ever.
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Nov 2, 2009
I've been a DreamHost customer for a few years now. I like to remain loyal to one brand, but I just can't stand DreamHost's down times (My website is down as I am writing this). I enjoy their cpanel a lot, and I was wondering if anyone can suggest me a few alternatives. I am currently on shared hosting with over 10+ domains. I read about, ANHosting, BlueHost, and HostGator. I want something fast, and I might even settle for a cheap VPS. However, I don't know how much resources do I use, so we will have to work out the details if I choose a VPS.
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Dec 31, 2005
Your opinions about Dreamhost?
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May 25, 2008
when you sign up for DreamHost account, the billing page says
Promo codes/referrers are for first time customers only. Therefore, if you use one you may not host a domain ever previously hosted with DreamHost on this account.)
I have already used to for $ 97 off coupon for one year, so if i sign up again with new account,
is there any chances to get caught
Let me know if someone has experience
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Nov 27, 2008
My account which was hosted for over a year with DreamHost has been disabled on 25th November without any prior notice or reasonable explanation. They only said:
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Your account has been disabled for Terms of Service violations.
Specifically, the clause you violated is:
Customer agrees to not engage in activities pertaining to Black Hat SEO, Spamdexing, and so-called "Scraper sites." These can all have a severely detrimental effect on server performance and are not permitted. You must find hosting elsewhere. We will not re-enable your account under any circumstances.
Terri H
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I swear I have never engaged in such activities. I asked them to clarify the action and tell me the problem domain. But they told me nothing about that. Even if I did such things (I swear I didn't), do they have a right to prevent my access to my files and databases? How can I move to a new host without these data?
I have multiple domains on my account and 2 of them is very important to me. One of them have 9000 unique hits per day and brings a good adsense income. I cannot rebuild these websites because they are products of two years effort.
Now I'm begging them to let me access my files and mysql databases but they do not answer my tickets and emails. I lost my bearings and don't know what to do!
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May 3, 2009
I was disturbed by a posting on DreamHosts blog. I try to stay current on hosting news and sometimes it involves looking at others Blogs. This example is not NOT to treat a customer
[url]
Even though the customer contacted the wrong department, this is NOT the way to handle these issues. I have personally received calls on my personal cell phone because they found it on one of the domains I own (whois I assume). I still take the call and work with the customer to resolve. I will never even think about doing this. Your Thoughts?
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Mar 7, 2009
some largeish download file links to test my download speed with. I need some from Bluehost and Dreamhost. If you have a link for another host on the west coast feel free to post it.
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Sep 9, 2008
I have use 2 years in dreamhost and feel good until This month!
Some of my websites becoming slow when visit. some are not!
I write to them and they said they can move my 1 website to another apache, they think maybe problems on apache. BUT after they moved sucessfull, my website is not reachable! and said: bad http-conff etc.
These days are very bad experience with them, today i found they start their unlimited ALL hositng package, i am not sure if this is related with my website was slow.
Acturally, I do not need so big and traffic hosting on DH, i rather to choose a good performance and speed hosting, NOT a oversell hosting company!
I must say: i feel it is ok in past years, but recent i am not happy with their hosting service.
My question: Is there a better hosting company than dreamhost? i need 10g spaces,200-400gb month traffic,can host 3-5 domains.
month charge under 9usd should be more better!
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Feb 13, 2009
What's happen with dreamhost payment methods?
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Jul 6, 2007
I signed up a Dreamhost account, and just "to see", I entered my account with my terminal. I access the /home directory and found that there's a symlink for each user that links to a directory under a hidden directory, I don't know why, but each account is located under something like this:
Code:
/home/.pluto/johnsmithblog
So basically you can find out easily who's hosted with you, just try accessing johnsmithblog.com and see if it's matching. Then you find out that a fair amount of the users hosted on the server use popular CMS/blog/forum software, ie: Wordpress. The only thing you have to do is create a PHP script with two lines of code: an include that points to the database config file (follow the same default structure of the CMS source tree used) a print function to display each variable or constant used to access the database This simple. Then, access http://mysql.johnsmithblog.com, when you're prompted for username/password, just type the database information and you have cracked the web site. How is it possible to be that simple?
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Jan 23, 2009
I got this email from DH
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Hello,
This is just a note to let you know your DreamHost account has been
disabled for violation of our Terms of Service listed here:
http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html
Specifically, section 8 of Material Products, "Customer agrees to not
engage in activities pertaining to Black Hat SEO, Spamdexing, and so-
called "Scraper sites." These can all have a severely detrimental
effect on server performance and are not permitted."
As such, we have now closed your account effective immediately and
refunded all your money. It should show back up on your credit card
within 3-4 busines days.
Please do not attempt to sign up for service with DreamHost again in
the future.
Thanks!
*************************************************
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Nov 14, 2007
I started a small site on their cheapest shared hosting. Well, it got pretty big and one day blew up. I got 12,000 unique visits(30K actual visits) within about 10 hours. The load this put on the shared server was bogging down everyone who was also on the server. DreamHost disabled my site until the load went down. Thats fine by me, its shared hosting and I was affecting other people. Would have been awesome if DH would have TOLD ME that they disabled my site. I realized the next day my site was offline. Everything within the Control Panel looked fine, I couldnt figure out wtf was wrong. So I send in a support e-mail and Im promptly replied with a generic automated message telling me Ill be helped shortly. About 30 hours later Im finally told my site was put offline due to the suddenly large amount of resources it was taking.
They refused to turn my site back on until I made my coding more efficient. Even after I reassured them that there wouldnt be that many visitors anymore, as the 2 days offline pretty much guaranteed to kill over half my traffic. Nope, I still had to change the site.
Whatever, I made it more efficent, used a cache so it wasnt pulling the page from a DB every time it was visited. Were now at three and a half days offline, awesome.
They still dont believe this is efficient enough. I switch to their VPS service and this satisfied them. They agree to turn the site back on now. 5 days offline. Im getting maybe 100 unique visits at this time.
After about 10 days of their VPS service(WOW their VPS blows donkey balls) I send an e-mail to have it cancelled and just go back to shared hosting. "As your site requires a lot of resources, your cancellation has been denied." At this point Im pretty irritated. My reply is "No offense, but thats wasnt a request. Ive moved to JaguarPC(you guys rock!) VPS service and I would like to go back to my shared hosting. I thank you in advance for doing this for me."
2 days later they say its switched. Oh yea. BTW, you pay daily for the VPS. It just adds on to your shared hosting costs, and yes I had to pay for those 2 days.
Skip ahead 2 months. I get an e-mail saying Ive been billed from DreamHost. This is normal, as my $10 shared hosting account is still active. Only this bill is for $80. Ive just been charged for 2 months worth of VPS and 2 months of shared hosting out of nowhere.
After about 6 e-mails(and 3 days) to their support team Ive finally got a response from a real person, only to tell me that hes forwarding my email to another tech support person that can "better help me". Whatever, do what you do DreamHost. Were now at a week(and 4 more emails asking whats going on, etc) when I get another response. Hey, my problem has been forwarded again. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.
So, two weeks later, I finally get my refund with a "We apologize for any inconvenience." e-mail.
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