A warning about Dreamhost - GoFuckYourself.com

Davy · 07-14-2011, 11:01 PM

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Hello,

Your account will close in 14 days per our 14 day clause in our terms of
service:

http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html

"This contract may be terminated by either party, without cause, by
giving the other party 14 days written notice. DreamHost Web Hosting will

accept termination by electronic mail. Notwithstanding the above,
DreamHost Web Hosting may terminate service under this contract at any

time, without penalty, if the Customer fails to comply with the terms of
this contract, including non-payment."

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 use the 14 days allotted to move your domains and content to
another hosting provider. Please have all domains and data removed within
this time frame as your account will NOT be reinstated after it has
closed. Your domains will be disabled during this time to prevent further
damage to the server.

Regards,

RLP

-- - DreamHost Abuse/Security Team - Terms of Service: http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html - Anti-Spam Policy: http://www.dreamhost.com/spam.html - Abuse Center: http://abuse.dreamhost.com/

I don't spam, I don't black hat. I don't "spamdex" or scrape.
99% of my dreamhost domains are blogs and parked domains.

So be careful with your dreamhost stuff. I now have to move 100 domains to another host.

PornStarToys · 07-14-2011, 11:07 PM

Did you contact them.

Rochard · 07-14-2011, 11:13 PM

So your host tells you have 14 days to move, according your contract, and your coming here to bitch instead?

I'm guessing there's something your not telling us.

Davy · 07-14-2011, 11:14 PM

I just received the email from them.
Will have to move all my sites over the weekend.
They turned everything off, so screw them.

My account is just too big for them. That's why they turned everything off.

PornStarToys · 07-14-2011, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

I'm guessing there's something your not telling us.

Agreed. Hosts don't kick their income out the door unless you're fucking them over.

Davy · 07-14-2011, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

So your host tells you have 14 days to move, according your contract, and your coming here to bitch instead?

They should give me the 14 days to move everything.
NOT turn it off without notice.

d-null · 07-14-2011, 11:15 PM

are you using any weird plugins?

Markul · 07-14-2011, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by PornStarToys

Agreed. Hosts don't kick their income out the door unless you're fucking them over.

Dreamhost does and will when you use too many resources. VPS or Shared.

Markul · 07-14-2011, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Davy

I just received the email from them.
Will have to move all my sites over the weekend.
They turned everything off, so screw them.

My account is just too big for them. That's why they turned everything off.

Yup, same thing happened to me last year.

Just Alex · 07-14-2011, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Davy

I don't spam, I don't black hat. I don't "spamdex" or scrape.
99% of my dreamhost domains are blogs and parked domains.

So be careful with your dreamhost stuff. I now have to move 100 domains to another host.

Same shit happened to me few years ago. They didn't give me 14 days and shut everything off. I couldn't get my backups either. Excuse - running top site. I didn't have any topsites there.

Markul · 07-15-2011, 12:39 AM

And they keep whatever is in your rewards account.

But they can keep their $97 and I can keep calling them scamming thieves

that works out for me. They must be really really poor to want to scam people for such a tiny amount

Anyone who's just remotely serious about their business will stay the fuck away from Dreamhost.

TangibleAsset · 07-15-2011, 12:47 AM

plz provide more info about your sites/activity that caused this. I have a pretty large account with dreamhost with a lot of relatively "blackhat" stuff. :\

boneless · 07-15-2011, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by PornStarToys

Agreed. Hosts don't kick their income out the door unless you're fucking them over.

dreamhost does, been there done that...

Diomed · 07-15-2011, 01:58 AM

That sounds totally unacceptable and quite a scary thought.

NetHorse · 07-15-2011, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by TangibleAsset

plz provide more info about your sites/activity that caused this. I have a pretty large account with dreamhost with a lot of relatively "blackhat" stuff. :\

What more do you need? Two people have chimed in claiming the same problem. I'd move your sites elsewhere.

martinsc · 07-15-2011, 02:31 AM

u-Bob · 07-15-2011, 02:33 AM

I've got lots of "grayhat" feeder sites there... never had a problem or complaint.

Markul · 07-15-2011, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

I've got lots of "grayhat" feeder sites there... never had a problem or complaint.

That must be because you aren't consuming any noticeable resources, I was not in any way violating any term (that I was aware of) and have on numerous occasions asked DH to tell me exactly how I was violating their terms. They never told me, they always ignored that question.

dc0ded · 07-15-2011, 02:56 AM

Thats scary.... Are u sure u were not exceeding the set CPU usage for ur account? Its one of the common ways why hosts ban accounts without warning.

u-Bob · 07-15-2011, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Markul

That must be because you aren't consuming any noticeable resources

well, I've got to admit that most of my code is optimized for performance

no mysql. all scraping is being done by other servers etc

mafia_man · 07-15-2011, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Davy

I just received the email from them.
Will have to move all my sites over the weekend.
They turned everything off, so screw them.

My account is just too big for them. That's why they turned everything off.

What do you expect from the biggest oversellers in the business.

If anyone actually makes use of that so called unlimited bandwidth and disk space then they pull your site.

They're shite, get a proper host.

Denny · 07-15-2011, 04:46 AM

$8/month virtual plan?

cherrylula · 07-15-2011, 04:56 AM

you guys milk a cheap hosting account for all you can, and then.... well sucks for you.

~Ray · 07-15-2011, 07:18 AM

get a proper host and never look back.. now is the time to buy.

Vox · 07-15-2011, 08:08 AM

I had the same thing happen to me last month. The exact same generic letter.
Been a customer since 2006 and paying for VPS & private MYSQL server, so it sure wasn't about the resource used.

Fuck them, since I paid the month of May with Paypal, I filed a dispute and got my money back.

wehateporn · 07-15-2011, 08:11 AM

Sounds like a shared hosting account getting too big. I was taking up over half of the shared server with my host, I knew they'd spot it sooner or later, so I upgraded to VPS.

I'm sorry to hear what's happened, it's a lot of hassle

96ukssob · 07-15-2011, 08:12 AM

you get what you pay for

Oracle Porn · 07-15-2011, 08:23 AM

at least they are giving you 14 days notice, you could have woken up one day and see your sites down.

bloggerz · 07-15-2011, 08:30 AM

I'd say spend a little more money on hosting and you won't have issues

Markul · 07-15-2011, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Oracle Porn

at least they are giving you 14 days notice, you could have woken up one day and see your sites down.

His sites are down. He has 14 days to pull the data to a new host.

V_RocKs · 07-15-2011, 10:59 AM

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PromoterX · 07-15-2011, 11:05 AM

I see someone who's about to pay for privacy for about 100 domains.... that's going to get expensive!

Agent 488 · 07-15-2011, 11:09 AM

stop using black hat tactics.

jigga · 07-15-2011, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by PornStarToys

Agreed. Hosts don't kick their income out the door unless you're fucking them over.

I've heard many stories about mainstream hosts that advertise "unlimited" services for a price under $10 that kick you off as soon as you start getting any decent traffic. Their whole model is based around having thousands of domains (accounts) each getting 5-10 hits a day on one server.

JFK · 07-15-2011, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by pornopete

People shouldn't be stingy on their hosting.

Get a managed dedicated server.

Great Idea, check Sig

woj · 07-15-2011, 11:15 AM

how much combined traffic were you getting? >10k/day? >100k/day? >1M/day?

Davy · 07-16-2011, 09:20 AM

They just want to get rid of me, because I eat too much of their resources. They offer unlimited bandwidth. But if you hit their CPU cycles, they will kick you out. Their reason is the "server's security". And they can get quite ugly doing so.

Klen · 07-16-2011, 09:26 AM

I always laugh when i see threads like this.It would be even more hilarious if your next host will be servage.

DBS.US · 07-16-2011, 10:20 AM

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/Dreamhost.aspx

TheSquealer · 07-16-2011, 02:04 PM

Cheap shitty hosts are cheap shitty hosts.

Shocker. Who'd have thought that?

18teens · 07-16-2011, 06:17 PM

I have heard of them doing the same thing to several others. I would never host with them.

TangibleAsset · 07-16-2011, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by woj

how much combined traffic were you getting? >10k/day? >100k/day? >1M/day?

????????????

Hentaikid · 07-17-2011, 07:33 AM

They got DDosed by Anonymous and didn't suspend the account of the person getting attacked, fwiw

lazycash · 07-17-2011, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by TangibleAsset

????????????

What part of the question do you not understand?

signupdamnit · 07-17-2011, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by DBS.US

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/Dreamhost.aspx

Yes. It's nothing new and there are plenty of complaints published. I gave them a shot and they were usable enough for my purposes but in that time they did some things many would be annoyed with. One day out of the blue when Googlebot or another spider hit me they sent me the dreaded notice that I was using too much resources. As a result they throttled one of my sites from then on despite my pointing out that it was merely one bot. I also noticed that they screwed around with some of my sites by adding "robots.txt" and various entries. In addition I had a database grow to about 1 GB. At that point they seemed to have capped it or something. I stayed with them for a while because I didn't care too much about those sites ad they were dirt cheap. But if you care at all and get more than 250 visitors a day to all your sites there, I would highly advise not using them.

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Davy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 4,323	I just received the email from them. Will have to move all my sites over the weekend. They turned everything off, so screw them. My account is just too big for them. That's why they turned everything off. __________________ --- ICQ 14-76-98 <-- I don't use this at all

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Markul Likes Pie Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The land that liberated porn Posts: 12,402	And they keep whatever is in your rewards account. But they can keep their $97 and I can keep calling them scamming thieves that works out for me. They must be really really poor to want to scam people for such a tiny amount Anyone who's just remotely serious about their business will stay the fuck away from Dreamhost.

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