How Bad Is Dreamhost Really?

If you’re reading this post it means that finally, after over 20 hours of downtime so far THIS WEEK, dreamhost (my hosting company) finally got their ass in gear and repaired things. I get complaints all the time that people would go to my site more except that its sooooo slow to load. This has nothing to do with “heavy” graphics on my part (as my entire flash file is around 100k and this blog only loads the header as a graphic – the rest is HTML). It has to do with dreamhost sucking. A friend of mine who hosts his clients’ sites as well as his own on his dreamhost account told me to demand a refund (thats what he does because outages actually cost him money). Maybe I should. Maybe I should switch. I just switched from (MT) in the fall because I was on one of their shitty servers from many years ago and I was having outages with my squirrel mail at least twice a day for at least 20 minutes per outage. That was no fun, I don’t really want to go back to that. I’m not sure what to do. The worst part is that in the 3 month period after I became a dreamhost customer everything was super-zippy. I mean fast. And their IT support team was responsive. And everything was night and day different from (MT). And then something jsut switched. Dreamhost jumped the shark and now I’m in the shitty boat, floating in a sea of garbage. The South-Pacific garbage patch in fact. Do you think they can just switch you from good service to bad once you pass a time-threshold? Woah is vbunetti.com/blog.