Comments on: Dreamhost Billing Nightmare

By: Goodbye Dreamhost, Hello MediaTemple! » JaypeeOnline // Blogging News & Reviews

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:11:58 +0000

[...] can forget about the billing nightmare that all DreamHost clients recently had? I was one of them and I was charged $119. I didn’t [...]

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:20:03 +0000

@Mikko – Hi there! It’s all good, a comment is never too late. ;)

So did Dreamhost refund the amount that they billed you? If you did, when did you get it? I got mine almost a week after the incident.

By: Mikko

Mikko — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:15:35 +0000

Hi kuya.

I know this comment is late.

I received a billing email from DH. I was at the school Computer Lab back then. I was alarmed so I contacted my mom right away. I know she’ll scold me if it wasn’t refund(ed).

Mikko’s last blog post..PSHS NCE Second Screening Results Website

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:30:41 +0000

@Angry Dog – Sorry to hear about that dude. I hope you were able to get the refund coz I got mine but only almost a week after this happened. I hope your bank record wasn’t affected by this and that you were able to buy your books for school.

Btw, do you happen to know if you enabled the auto bill turned on or off? Coz in my case, I had it turned on and that was my mistake. But I also heard some Dreamhost users who got charged even if they turned off the auto bill option, on’t know whether those are true though but if it were true, that’s another issue.

By: Angry Dog

Angry Dog — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:25:14 +0000

I did not received even one email about this matter – the last email I got was the regular news email just before this happened. It was only by chance I checked DHstatus for any scheduled downtime and saw all this crap. My online banking is down for maintenance still so I don’t know if I’m way overdrawn or what now – I haven’t made any purchases the last few days so was unaware of any issue. I’m a student and I can’t afford this. Semester starts next week and I need to buy books. I am so fucking angry. VERY VERY PISSED. I have an unblemished bank record, if they’ve fucked that up I’m jumping on any legal action available to sue their sorry asses from here to December 31st 2008.. bastards.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:05:59 +0000

@sylv3rblade – Oh okay. Good for you that you were able to immediately find a good and reliable web host. I hope not. All the best to your web host! :)

By: sylv3rblade

sylv3rblade — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:03:11 +0000

just 2 months then I switched. I’m currently on a friend’s hosting service, snoobhosting. It’s a whole lot cheaper and more reliable (not to mention an affiliate offer). Just hope no one DDoS us =/

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Weekly Link Love from Atma Xplorer | Atma Xplorer — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:00:46 +0000

[...] Jaypee shares his Dreamhost Billing Nightmare. Hmm.. I guess I’m lucky I switched to snoobhosting the month [...]

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:55:16 +0000

@sylv3rblade – Is that so? How long were you hosted with Dreamhost? Yeah, their hosting plan looks very nice and tempting but the problem is they cramp their servers. So whos’ your webhost now?

By: sylv3rblade

sylv3rblade — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:52:07 +0000

I stopped using Dreamhost about a month ago, that was after the nth downtime in 2 months for the server my blog was on. I like their hosting plan but seeing error 500 on my site often makes int not worth it.