# DreamHost

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost/103642>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [May 8, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost/103642 "2007-05-08T20:37:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost/103642/1 "2007-05-08T20:37:37Z")

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Hello all!

I’m wondering who all is running Radiant on Dreamhost. I’m wondering if  
anyone has a solution to a host which has FastCGI set to max 5 dynamic  
dispatch.fcgi. I am having serious scaling issues with Radiant right now  
on DreamHost: Specifically, with 5 dispatchers that launch and heavy  
traffic, these 5 dispatchers hit well past 200MB usage, and my host is  
auto-canning my dispatchers. I have read repeatedly around the net the  
best way to control this is to set FastCGI to static and set to 2  
processes; However, I can not put FastCgiConfig into .htaccess as I get  
an  
error that it does not belong there; On top of this, there is no way to  
access http.conf. Any ideas? This is killing me and I’m either going to  
have to change hosts or change CMS unless I can work out something soon.  
My traffic is increasing steadily and is about to take another jump  
because of a partnership and I have no option to move to another host at  
this time. Ideas?

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost/103642/2 "2007-05-08T21:04:40Z")

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Hello… uhm… thoth.

I have one production Rails site on Dreamhost, and my recommendation is  
to  
move to another host now. It will be painful, but less painful than if  
you  
wait.

Chris

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost/103642/3 "2007-05-08T22:42:51Z")

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Hello Chris!

Well, I was dreading that. I’d been running --fairly-- smooth up until  
today, when my site went totally haywire. I don’t know if it was me or  
other causes, but Powerbar is having severe issues right now and no clue  
what to do about it; The new support form they made does NOT work at  
all;  
It makes it to the end where you submit it, and it hangs on the  
submission  
portion, so I can’t even get ahold of them. I can do the other form of  
submission (automated) but it just comes back saying everything is fine.

Thanks Chris  
Andrew

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost/103642/4 "2009-08-14T21:52:29Z")

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I have a few sites on Dreamhost and I’m wondering if there is a reason  
you elected to not use Passenger. I’m running Private Servers with  
Passenger and memcron running to manage the RAM allocation.

unknown wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> I’m wondering who all is running Radiant on Dreamhost. I’m wondering if  
> anyone has a solution to a host which has FastCGI set to max 5 dynamic  
> dispatch.fcgi. I am having serious scaling issues with Radiant right now  
> on DreamHost: Specifically, with 5 dispatchers that launch and heavy  
> traffic, these 5 dispatchers hit well past 200MB usage, and my host is  
> auto-canning my dispatchers. I have read repeatedly around the net the  
> best way to control this is to set FastCGI to static and set to 2  
> processes; However, I can not put FastCgiConfig into .htaccess as I get  
> an  
> error that it does not belong there; On top of this, there is no way to  
> access http.conf. Any ideas? This is killing me and I’m either going to  
> have to change hosts or change CMS unless I can work out something soon.  
> My traffic is increasing steadily and is about to take another jump  
> because of a partnership and I have no option to move to another host at  
> this time. Ideas?

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost/103642/5 "2009-07-23T13:45:49Z")

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On the top comment I would contact Dreamhost support direct they are  
usually helpful. My experience has been fine using rails on Dreamhost  
so far. I found that it was not the best place to fully deploy a rails  
environment, but if the development was done locally and the shared host  
with limited access - Dreamhost, just handled the live environment with  
the fastcgi I was fine. I wrote an article here  
[http://topcweb.com/content/ruby-rails-setup](http://topcweb.com/content/ruby-rails-setup)