Dreamhost May Not be Perfect, But I Still Love It
In case you had not heard, there’s been a huge brouhaha in the past week over a massive billing error at one of the top webhosting companies, Dreamhost. I found out about it when my friend (who I had referred) asked me why she was being billed in January for a September due date. We discovered that Dreamhost accidentally billed a year in advance (inputting 2009 instead of 2008 or something like that). She got an email back from Dreamhost, felt happy that she had a refund coming, and that was that. (My account was fortunately not charged, since my credit card had expired.)
Well, that wasn’t exactly that. That might have been that for her, but for many others, the charge put them in the red and the refunds were slow in coming. The blogosphere has been aflame with the issue, and the drama has been a whole soap opera of its own. What has amazed me is seeing how many people are living so close to the edge. Dreamhost users were on the official blog, complaining that they had no money for food or baby formula. Baby formula? You’ve got kids, and you spend money for webhosting when you have no savings set aside for emergencies? Yikes. (more…)
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