I’m also using a dreamhost vps if that helps. Are there certain settings I need to configure on the vps to make this work properly? I tried a very similar import on the sandbox that you can create (http://www.wpallimport.com/try/) and the import seemed to work properly, with the one caveat being I imported as a “Post” in the sandbox whereas I have a custom type I’m importing to in my particular instance. I tried importing as a “Post” to my site, but that still failed.