It looks like I’m not the only one that had Dreamhost problems - when I first moved to Dreamhost, I saw astronomical uptime numbers similar to what Daviey saw. While these numbers are actually normalized to the number of CPUs (as opposed to 1.00 as he mentions), 430+ is not exactly acceptable.

How do you improve Drupal performance on Dreamhost? It’s a trick question - the answer is move to MediaTemple.

If you’re reading this, then you have hit the new MediaTemple(dv)-hosted Realjenius.com - and you have met one much happier R.J.

I’ve previously talked about tuning Drupal for weblogs here previously. I’d like to elaborate more today, on specifically running Drupal on Dreamhost.

Before switching to Dreamhost, I was mostly hosted by VPS accounts, with my storage on the high-end being around 5 GB. With Dreamhost, I have over 350 GB.

If you’re like me, you don’t have an adequate backup scheme on your home computers. Granted, some of my data (particularly on my big server hard drives) is fairly excessive in size, and the best I can hope to do with most of it is use technologies such as RAID.