Comments on: DreamHost Blocks Googlebot on Client Sites

By: Jeff Avery

Jeff Avery — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:11:16 +0000

I tend to agree here. I have been using Dreamhost now for about a year and they have been great. I am transferring Domains over from 1and1 and I have had no issues.

To me, the point made is valid. If you are on the shared plan (10.00 per month with all the amenities) and you are expecting dedicated server results you are a bit off.

I would agree modifying your code is not the answer but if you are going down the high volume road you should probably consider paying for the right tool for the job…..just my two cents.

-Jeff

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:28:41 +0000

I’ve been their before but because of some problems I transfer my clients to 1&1 webhost. They offer large webspace and database. I love their support and they’re very helpful (it depends of what problem you have). Try to visit their website http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=19590282

By: celebrity

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By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:50:29 +0000

I recently got a Dreamhost account for the Jabber server. Blocking Googlebot goes too far though. I would feel like my site was being molested. Thanks for the warning.

By: Hellhound

Hellhound — Tue, 22 May 2007 05:06:04 +0000

If you look over at their forums, a bunch of users seems to be quite happy with being promised huge bandwidth and storage, although they should never ask for actually getting it.

Oh, and in their blog they have posted a, uhm, “justification” for overselling:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-about-overselling/

Yeah, everybody oversells… but eventually has to get the hardware to satisfy the demand.

Heah Dreamhost, don’t offer it if you don’t have the resources.

What a bunch of dimwits.

By: Cvos SEO

Cvos SEO — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:28:48 +0000

While I do have pity on the Dreamhost server admins, blocking Googlebot is not the answer. Yes its true that Dreamhost has hundreds of thousands of accounts, many of which contain spam, but they need to throttle googlebot, not block it. Using webmaster central can reduce bot hits. Blocking Google is like turning your website off at 5pm when you leave your office. No e-commerce business would ever dream of this.

By: Form builder

Form builder — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:30:34 +0000

great post, some of our users ask as about this issue and that they don’t understand how come our forms are indexed and that the rest of the site is not…
well…thats becuase of a simpe reason.,.forms are not being hosted on the same user domain..
keep updating us!

By: Hong Xiaowan

Hong Xiaowan — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:56:36 +0000

That is too bad, without Googlebot, what is the value of a website?

By: Pozycjonowanie

Pozycjonowanie — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:23:13 +0000

It’s really strange i think sometimes it’s good to do this (when someone don’t tel googlebot to go back after 2-3 days). But when they host over 500,000 ‘domains’ – it will block everyones website from google. I agree with Siropei “The best thing he can do is move to a more reliable provider :)” when more users go to other providers maybe they will think more when making plans to do something like block googlebot. Greetings

By: Jack Web

Jack Web — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:39:21 +0000

I think Dream host was suppose to inform the client about the issue. He should have asked to upgrade a sever. Directly blocking google bots without informing the client initially was not so good method.