# A Comment About Dreamhost **URL:** \ **Category:** Elements\ **Created:** [March 26, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352 "2026-03-26T15:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thominator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/thominator/32/35233_2.png) [@thominator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thominator)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/1 "2026-03-26T15:46:25Z")
I’ve used Dreamhost for years (decade+) and don’t have anything but good things to say about them. Decent pricing, excellent performance, and generally very fast and reliable customer support. However, if you’re using Elements to publish directly to Dreamhost, there’s one thing you need to know: _do not interrupt a ZIP backup_ operation. Doing so will make your site unreachable from Elements (it still works fine for site visitors) until the daily reset. I learned this the hard way. I was doing a bunch of small updates to a site, and eventually got tired of waiting for the backup to finish (I had it set to “backup every time”) so tried to cancel out of the backup from the Elements side. It appears that Dreamhost just left the channel open waiting for the backup to continue/conclude. ---
**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/2 "2026-03-26T16:33:04Z")
> [@thominator](#): > > Doing so will make your site unreachable from Elements (it still works fine for site visitors) until the daily reset. What do you mean unreachable? You mean you can’t publish again until this daily reset you are referring to? Or unreachable some other way? ---
**Author:** ![MichaelDroste](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/michaeldroste/32/37212_2.png) [@MichaelDroste](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MichaelDroste)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/3 "2026-03-26T17:02:58Z")
I do that all the time —- was wondering what was going on…. ---
**Author:** ![thominator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/thominator/32/35233_2.png) [@thominator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thominator)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/4 "2026-03-26T17:41:19Z")
It means you’ll get a “Fail” report for all files trying to be sent to Dreamhost. Basically, you see Elements building the files, but then when it goes to push them, you get “Fails” on everything. ---
**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/5 "2026-03-26T17:44:54Z")
That sounds strange, seems like their server isn’t terminating the connection and leaving a zombie process opened up which might block further uploads, or your IP is getting temp banned… Neither should really be happening. Anyway, it works fine on [Elements Hosting](https://elementshosting.io/). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thominator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/thominator/32/35233_2.png) [@thominator](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thominator)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/6 "2026-03-26T18:07:46Z")
I believe it’s a zombie process problem. There’s just no simple way of terminating the process, so until they do it from their end, you can’t re-publish. It’s not a big deal, just change your backup schedule to once a week and don’t try to terminate it from within Elements before it completes. ---
**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/7 "2026-03-26T18:15:34Z")
> [@thominator](#): > > It’s not a big deal, just change your backup schedule to once a week and don’t try to terminate it from within Elements before it completes. Perhaps not a big deal, but a compromise that shouldn’t need to be made… Backing up every time the site is published provides better data protection, and people shouldn’t get locked out of publishing if they want to skip that backup process from time to time… ---
**Author:** ![MichaelDroste](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/michaeldroste/32/37212_2.png) [@MichaelDroste](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MichaelDroste)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/8 "2026-03-26T19:05:51Z")
Backing up my 3 GB file takes forever 2.3 MB upload speed It just seems to crawl and I need to just let it do its thing for an hour or so ---
**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/9 "2026-03-26T19:26:55Z")
> [@MichaelDroste](#): > > 2.3 MB upload speed Is that because of your Internet Service Provider’s upload speed? Or is the bottleneck coming from your Dreamhost server? I can give you a test FTP user on our Chicago server if you want to see if it’s ISP related or server related. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MichaelDroste](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/michaeldroste/32/37212_2.png) [@MichaelDroste](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MichaelDroste)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/10 "2026-03-26T20:51:39Z")
It’s DreamHost…. ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/11 "2026-03-26T22:28:13Z")
> [@MichaelDroste](#): > > Backing up my 3 GB file takes forever You really need to get those files online and then link to them as remote resources in Elements, it’d make your project file tiny in comparison! ---
**Author:** ![MichaelDroste](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/michaeldroste/32/37212_2.png) [@MichaelDroste](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MichaelDroste)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/a-comment-about-dreamhost/55352/12 "2026-03-26T23:01:17Z")
Yes it’s on my list of -to do- 🙂 Thanx 🙂