{"id":97,"date":"2006-12-20T07:11:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T05:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2006-12-20T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T05:11:10","slug":"dreamhost-what-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/dreamhost-what-a-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamhost &#8212; what a disaster!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=66\">mentioned before<\/a>, I am looking for a new hosting company.&nbsp; I came across&nbsp; Dreamhost and using their $97 coupon meant that I could get a year&#8217;s hosting for around $22 which is a very good deal.&nbsp; It looked liked they offered everything I needed so I went ahead to signup for a Dreamhost account.<\/p>\n<p>Everything seemed to go fine until I received a note from them that I should print out some form.&nbsp; Hand filled it in with an image of my credit card on it, and fax this form back to them.&nbsp; Being on holiday and not near a fax machine (who still uses fax machines in any case), I decided to take a digital photo of the form and email it to Dreamhost.&nbsp; The digital image was actually very good, probably a lot better than what the fax would have been.<\/p>\n<p>What a surprise when I received a automated message from Dreamhost that they do not accept attachments in email and that I must upload the attachment somewhere and send them the URL.&nbsp; After doing that and sending them the URL, got another response saying that they will only accept a fax. If I cannot do that then they will just cancel my sign-up which they then did.&nbsp; I am sure they did not even bother looking at the digital image of the signed form.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I would never recommend them to anybody ever.&nbsp; And here I though we are living in a digital world.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Off to search for another host that want my business .. any recommendations?<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/hosting\" rel=\"tag\">hosting<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dreamhost\" rel=\"tag\">dreamhost<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/disaster\" rel=\"tag\">disaster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned before, I am looking for a new hosting company.&nbsp; I came across&nbsp; Dreamhost and using their $97 coupon meant that I could get a year&#8217;s hosting for around $22 which is a very good deal.&nbsp; It looked liked <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/dreamhost-what-a-disaster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Dreamhost &#8212; what a disaster!!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}