Widget Watch: DreamHost status

dreamhost can be sucky at times, but the things I like about them far outweigh the suckiness (for me and friends I've talked to about it.)

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I use dreamhost and have been pretty happy with them as well. There have been a few hicups but better than I have had with other hosting solutions.

If you enter code TUAW when you check out you get $10 discount on everything, worth a try.

I need something like this for MediaTemple. Their Grid servers seem to have glitches about once a week. Their customer service is top notch but I wish they could get their issues ironed out.

dhost can be quite sucky at times and in fact had probs this afternoon - however it is great that they have a status report site. At least i know there's a problem, that they're working on it and that it will be resolved.

1host, the company i use for my reseller account is much, much worse and when there are problems they are of the spectacular kind.

another thing bout dhost - their webpanel was designed by a bunch of blind monkeys with a bad case of dyslexia.

that's the default template from Dashcode: 10 out of 10 for usefulness, 1 out of 10 for creativity, heh. :D

3. - damn straight GoDaddy never lets me down / hang.

I agree - give watchmouse a try - it's free and works with any host, not just dreamhost.

And any host that needs a widget like this is kinda sad anyway, isn't it? I use A2 Hosting, it's $4 a month and never goes down.

Its a little disconcerting that they -need- a status widget. Do they really go down with such frequency that you'd need it on your Dashboard like a CPU monitor?

I've did a little search and found this widget, sounds pretty cool and spot on what I was looking for.

The thing's called WatchMouse
http://www.watchmouse.com/fr/widget/dashboard_widget.php?c=widget&v=2.0.4

Nice and all, but when I've seen the post title, and just after seeing the actual DH status feed next to my Feedburner "site unavailble" alerts feed , I've imagined this widget would be more of a service monitoring tool than a simple RSS reader.

Oh well.