DreamHost

[wasistdas]

What do you guys think about DreamHost. Especially that they offer now outstanding hosting plans by price/possibilities

 

[anirudh90]

the biggest discount is actually $110.16. I found the code today...i need to try it.

 

[wasistdas]

Then tell us which one and for what plan

 

[JAugusto]

anirudh90: There's no such thing as a $110.16 code. Browse around and you'll find out why. $97 is max dreamhost offers.

 

[movingconcierge]

Hosts who offer a lot of bandwith/space oversell. Personally, it is quite unethical to oversell and is not a good way to run a business. Overselling makes sites load really slow and the servers less stable. If anyone wants a reliable host that actually cares about them, they should stay away from hosts like godaddy and dreamhost. The reason they oversell is because most people do not use all the extra bandwith and space. For those of you who dont know, overselling is when hosts advertise more then they have allocated per server.

I can echo this. I just signed up with Dreamhost and have had the dns servers go down (though quickly resolved) and now I am having my second problem with their mail servers...I am quickly growing disenchanted, even with the <Removed -Staff> coupon...I need to not worry about these things and worry about getting traffic and members to my site...I hope they don't suck forever...

 

[Chris]

Guys, I think we all know they have a referral program that you can create your own promo codes and offer up to a $97 discount. Don't be posting the coupon codes as it's the same thing as posting your referral link.

All affiliate codes have been removed from this thread. :tri:

 

[iNod]

Read there blog lol..

http://blog.dreamhost.com/

I would say they arn't going to last long if the owner flew to Boston to get his name in a plaque when they reached 200,000 domains.

^ LOL ^

- Steve

Read there blog lol..

http://blog.dreamhost.com/

I would say they arn't going to last long if the owner flew to Boston to get his name in a plaque when they reached 200,000 domains.

^ LOL ^

- Steve

 

[AllValley]

I've been hosting with them for ABOUT 2 months now. For 22.95/year for 20GB space and 1TB transfer

Dreamhost will only limit you by CPU minutes, NOT bandwidth.
MY first month I signed up as a joke, and had the servers at the college I go to uploading 250MB ZIPs for 3 days, and topped the space out at 20.928GB of space used. Then had the servers download them all for a few days, and topped out at 1.009TB of bandwidth used. I got no overage fees and my account wasn't terminated. So it's for real.

I've had a total of 19 minutes of downtime in two months, and that was from the snowstorm recently.

However, their email support is ridiculously lacking. Questions take about 3+ days to be answers -- But I do enjoy having free reign of their server with SSH XD
AVGLOAD ('cat /proc/avgload') shows about 1.9% on CPU and 1.6% on RAM. And there are tons of accounts on it. But there's only ever 2 users on (ssh or FTP) (using a who)
The CPU stats are 4 2.8Ghz XEONS with 4GBs RAM. A pretty hefty Server!

A copy of an SSH session with the info on it.

Mon Feb 7 13:23:30 PST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
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Welcome to avalon.dreamhost.com

Any malicious and/or unauthorized activity is strictly forbidden.
All activity may be logged by DreamHost Web Hosting.


Last login: Wed Feb 15 10:58:21 2006 from 46.16.63.207.kish.cc.il.us
[avalon]$ cd /proc

[avalon]$ cat uptime
40776.81 31744.68

[avalon]$ uptime
15:42:11 up 11:19, 5 users, load average: 1.33, 1.41, 1.57

[avalon]$ cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 2800.207
cache size : 16 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl cid
bogomips : 5583.66

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 2800.207
cache size : 16 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl cid
bogomips : 5596.77

processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 2800.207
cache size : 16 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl cid
bogomips : 5596.77

processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 2800.207
cache size : 16 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl cid
bogomips : 5596.77

[avalon]$ cat meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 3702493184 3581501440 120991744 0 22667264 2762252288
Swap: 2155012096 888832 2154123264
MemTotal: 3615716 kB
MemFree: 118156 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 22136 kB
Cached: 2696772 kB
SwapCached: 740 kB
Active: 823948 kB
Inactive: 1896088 kB
HighTotal: 2752384 kB
HighFree: 2044 kB
LowTotal: 863332 kB
LowFree: 116112 kB
SwapTotal: 2104504 kB
SwapFree: 2103636 kB

[avalon]$ cat loadavg
1.24 1.38 1.55 1/636 16019

Aside for mostly shoddy support, the price can't be beat for what you get I'm pretty confident in my skills for the most part, so I can solve most things by myself. It's just annoying when I have a question and it takes 51 hours to be answered --
I'm pretty happy with the server and the stability.

Then again, I'm on Avalon, another users experience might be different on a different server.

 

[abcde]

Does any1 knows how to use the prome code to renew service with dreamhost?

 

[JAugusto]

Is there a promo code to renew? where did you heard about it?

 

[alanchau]

There are no promo codes to renew... If there were, the company wouldn't be very profitable...

 

[abcde]

prome code dont work anymore

 

[Seven11]

Promo code do work still, I using Dreamhost and I love it.

 

[abcde]

could you please pm me to prome code that u used?

 

[oliciv]

I wouldn't sign up with them, have only heard bad things. Some scripts dont run correctly and they use their own control panel. You may want to check out http://webhostingjury.com, to find a good host!

Dreamhost's control panel takes a bit of getting used to, but it's better than any other I've used.