DreamHost Strikes Again
I have a business domain that I sooner or later need to have hosted and start moving with for real.
Based on reputation, price and specs, I attempted to host it with DreamHost. The alternative in mind was GoDaddy, but they have some unexpected limitations.
I got through the signup and they rejected me for suspected credit card fraud, which was completely whacky. After not-too-seriously considering jumping through their hoops and faxing an image of the card to their billing people, I asked them to cancel my order. They said:
Your account was disabled for fraud so there is nothing to cancel. The only way to activate your account will be by fax.
Okay, fine, so no business ever transpired between us.
At least as a temporary measure, I’ve been trying to add that domain to my elhide.com account with Hosting Matters. When I do, it keeps telling me my domain “is owned by another user.” I just now finally put in a support request for that.
Since that didn’t work and I know I’d eventually want it on its own host and all that, I decided to try DreamHost again. Just not for as large a plan or as long a timeframe this time.
At the end of the signup DreamHost gives me this error:
“This domain “thedomaininquestion.com” is already in our system!
Please contact support if you’d like to do something with it and you don’t know how.”
Aw jeez.
Their initial, admittedly instant, reply to my missive indicated they didn’t really know what I was talking about. They’re on the same page now, but jeez. If HM can fix the problem on their end, I’ll just setup shop there until I don’t fit anymore.
And I don’t think I will ever again entertain the notion of putting anything with DreamHost.
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