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Slow sites at Dreamhost

Recently I wrote about the monitoring services from mon.itor.us that I use. As I shifted the last of my sites from Dreamhost to a VPS I was wondering about some of the values I was seeing. For example here’s a … Continue reading

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Dreamhost email delays

If it’s not one thing it’s another at Dreamhost. Like a lot of people I just forward all my email to Gmail, it’s got a great spam filter, plenty of storage, accessible via web, POP & IMAP, maybe the only … Continue reading

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Server load caused by SSH haxors

So like a good admin I graph various hosts of mine and recently looking through one of the graphs sets I noticed this. The hourly spikes are just webmin / virtualmin doing bandwidth calcs and stats generation, other than that … Continue reading

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Website response times – Is your webhost doing a good job?

Quite a while ago I setup an account at mon.itor.us and recently I was looking at the various stats that they are producing, not too bad for a freebie Here’s an example of the recent http response times for my … Continue reading

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Dreamhost referrals & promo code

A lot of people ask me where I host my sites. Well a lot of them are hosted at Dreamhost. One of the guys at work referred me to them 18 months ago and I’ve been using them ever since. … Continue reading

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