Comments on: DreamHost Newsletter – July 2008

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:39:38 +0000

My understanding is that mod_php on the Private Servers is still now working.

By: ADreamhosters

ADreamhosters — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:59:48 +0000

I had an account with dreamhost for 4 years, maintaining 50-60 sites almost for 2 years. Last month, my account just disabled when my traffic just started growing for this year.

http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2008/05/27/dreamhost-now-hosts-700000-domains/

Apparently they are more focus on the new users than the old one.

Lesson learnt:
You got to move away from dreamhost when your web traffic grow.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:28:57 +0000

@Bobaganoosh

How do you know if you have “conflicts” in an .htaccess file?

By: Bobaganoosh

Bobaganoosh — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:41:56 +0000

If you’re seeing 500 Internal Errors then it most likely your PS running out of memory, see http://wiki.dreamhost.com/DreamHost_PS_Troubleshooting also I noticed that my pages came up blank after enabling mod_php and XCache but this was because of some conflicts in my .htaccess file. I suggest renaming the .htaccess and seeing if the problem is there.

Good luck!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:53:18 +0000

I too am having problems on my Private Server when enabling mod_php.

My PHP either don’t render or I get a 500 Internal Error. The strange thing is that it’s only on some PHP pages of mine, not all.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:53:12 +0000

All

I just tried enabling mod_php again on my Private Server, as soon as I do so – all of my PHP pages that are rendered with Smarty break.

The page is just blank with no content.

Look like it’s still not working to me.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:05:27 +0000

Seems like mod_php is working now. It messed up a couple of my sites for a while.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:56:47 +0000

@Greg

Do you know if the mod_php bug is fixed yet?

Tim

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:33 +0000

FYI / @Tim

Support is informing customers that the mod_php option on Private Servers is experiencing a bug, resulting in some PHP pages not rendering.

I would advice against people switching over to mod_php until this bug is resolved by Dreamhost.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:13:58 +0000

It appears that XCache will only work if you use mod_php per the statement:

“[XCache] only provides any benefit for websites using mod_php.”

But I don’t want to use mod_php because it uses more memory (RAM that I have to pay for) than fcgi for php … which fcgi by the way, is Dreamhost recommended approach to deploying PHP applications.

So sad