As I stated in my last post, I signed up for the PPC-Coach in hopes of drastically improving my PPC Marketing skills. Sidenote: It’s 50 bucks a month, but it’s already worth it and I’m only on my third day of the subscription. Sidenote#2: You can cancel at any time during your membership. That’s a question I had before signing up. Anywho, PPC-Coach has several cool software tools that you download and use for your first lesson. I downloaded these tools and was attempting to install them on one of my many dreamhost servers and lo and behold – I was getting tons of errors. I had had problems with Dreamhost before (speed/error issues) so I had a pretty good idea that the errors I was getting were Dreamhost related. Big surprise.
So I contacted Dreamhost customer support via email and they had a timely response (as usual. props to them) but they said the the error was a problem with the third-party software’s problem. Of course it was! Who wants to take blame, right?
Last night I realized that I have quite a bit of hosting space over at SimpleHelix that I’m paying for, but not using. I figured I would purchase a new website on their site (only $7.95) or something and use try to install the PPC-Coach software there. I purchased the domain last night and got everything set up today. Needless to say, the errors simply didn’t exist when I installed the PPC-Coach tools on my SimpleHelix server. Although the SimpleHelix admin interface leaves much to be desired when copmared to Dreamhost’s, I must give props to SimpleHelix for having solid hosting and super-quick email/phone support (both free). You can sign up for SimpleHelix here.
What problems have you had with Dreamhost? Do you agree with me when I say that Dreamhost sucks? I’ve been with them for quite a while (a couple of years), so my opionon isn’t just based on one bad experience.
