Comments on: Phusion Passenger and Dreamhost

By: Daniel Kehoe

Daniel Kehoe — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:16:32 +0000

I've written a wiki entry for the DreamHost support wiki that gives detailed updated instructions for Installing Merb 1.0 at DreamHost with Passenger.

By: Ninh

Ninh — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:55:14 +0000

@sp:
Please consult DH for what version they are currently running. As for Rack, this is indeed supported by Passenger 2.x and you can run your Merb apps on Passenger through Rack.

By: sp

sp — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:51:01 +0000

Anyone know what version of mod_rails DH (shared hosting) runs? Can I run rack and/or Merb apps on DH yet, which is a feature of mod_rails 2.x, right?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:20:22 +0000

I’ve been with DreamHost for a few years now – no problems at all! Just enabled passenger on my sites – looks like it now uses less memory (I’m on PS).

By: K

Thu, 22 May 2008 07:11:36 +0000

Nat, having been a Dreamhost customer, I’d say don’t do it, you will live to regret it if you depend on your site staying up. Dreamhost is great for messing around and test sites, and obviously great value, but cannot compare with your own server (or VPS) for uptime. Your site will be down several times a month for periods of hours, with only retrospective explanations. See their status pages and blog for details of frequent downtime.

I wouldn’t normally criticise a hosting provider like this on someone else’s site, but Dreamhost has been a very bad experience for me (and others) over the last couple of years, serving simple static sites, not even rails ones. Their infrastructure is not reliable because there are too many people on each server. Support is always friendly and reasonably prompt, but that doesn’t help with the service.

Re Passenger, this is a great move for them, but I think if you want to run a reliable site, rather than experiment, you’re better off paying a little more for hosting.

By: Nat Budin

Nat Budin — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:43:11 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’m in the process of switching from Linode to Dreamhost because of this. My sites run faster under Dreamhost’s Passenger setup than they do on my Linode VPS, and I’ll be saving $20 a month. Thanks, Phusion and Dreamhost!