Alan Levine's dashboard

I have seen a place to get a widget for my blog, and have just clicked about everything possible on my Nike site for 15 minutes and cannot find it.

I am friends with someone and I can see her running logs; she is friends with me, but cannot see the runs I have in my account. I have my privacy settings to public. The inconsistencies in the Nike+ web site are really getting tiring to deal with.

I keep getting lost in the Nike+ web site. I am logged in and there is NO link or way to connect to the profile info at http://my.nike.com/cogdogblog e.g. to see my public profile or my friends activity.

Until 8 weeks ago I would have been dropping praise for Dreamhost, whom I have used for 2 years; their support has been responsive and the array of tools are efficient and easy to use.

That was until I noticed more and more downtime. I use ServerMojo to monitor my site, which is now below 90% on on November 7 was less than 60%
http://www.servermojo.com/zoom/5106

When I first contacted them they informed me that the server I was on, on Sept 21, I was told:

It looks like the server your site's on was having issues earlier that ended up needing a complete reboot. It could have been an abusive user, or a high load on the server.

On another contact, Nov 6, the reasons had changed:

It does look like sobe has undergone quite a bit of troubleshooting due to network filer-related issues.

You may want to consider volunteering to upgrade to our newer servers (that won't have the same problems as the server you're currently on as the file servers aren't networked at all). Eventually, all users will be on these servers, but as that is a massive undertaking that could cause a few errors for some users based on how their site is configured, we are starting with volunteers first.

You can find out more about this by going to Billing / Manage Account in
your panel, or by clicking here:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi...

Then, click the "UPGRADE TO UNLIMITED DISK AND BANDWIDTH FREE" link.

So there is a known problem with their servers that are not communicated to paying customers, nor never appear in the cheery monthly messages from Josh Jones.

I did as instructed and volunteered to have my server moved, and got no response or confirmation. The link for the "UPGRADE TO UNLIMITED DISK AND BANDWIDTH FREE" is gone.

After another outage yesterday, I submitted another support request, provided the link to my ServerMojo stats, and was told again to click on the upgrade link. So in my counter response, I replied:

I have already submitted that request for the server move when I filed a ticket last week.

To which I heard:

Yarg! Im sorry then, I guess its just a matter of waiting. :(

Let's see, I am supposed to just wait around for a fix to a problem they never told me about? And I am paying them for sub-par service? I am not just sitting around waiting, I am shopping for a reliable hosting service who does not tell me to "just wait"

And maybe, while I am waiting, I will register a new domain dreamhostsucksinabigway.com on their site.

I am less inclined to move because of (1) the hassle and (1) most hosting companies suck as well, so it is going from one burnt pan to another. I'd be more happy is:

(a) Dreamhost would communicate technical problems, and more than a vague "network filer" issue. This does not appear in their status listings at all.
(b) Dreamhost would offer more than vague timelines of fixes to problems than "soon"

C'mon Dreamhost, right now you are DreamChokes or NightmareHost