Are Dreamhost THAT bad?

Phaser · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:35

Seen a few bad comments relating to Dreamhost on this forum..

A friend of mine has an account with them, hosting lots of DJ's mixes, he has about 300 mixes on there so needs lots of webspace. He says they have been fine for him in the 2 months he's been with them.

I'm paying £20 a year for 1GB space and 12GB transfer from www.dream-hosting.co.uk and they've been great, however I need quite a bit more space for sharing a few videos i've made.

Are Dreamhost to be avoided?

Thanks.

Space Cowboy · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:38

This wasn't quite clear from your post, but Dreamhost != Dream-hosting.

I've had good experience with Dreamhost myself. Of course, if you want to load a server up heavily you'll have problems, but for moving lots of static content, it'll be fine.

daz · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:42

For large plain file downloads and file storage, Dreamhost's offering is probably worthwhile. If you require any kind of scripting powering your site, then a large amount of visitors will ensure that you will hit CPU time limits before getting near to your bandwidth allocation.

Beansprout · 1 Apr 2006 at 18:24

Dreamhost are a large company and buy bandwith in huge bulk. iirc they could actually afford for everyone to use their bandwidth allocation, though I'd bet it'd be completely unusable as the network and servers would get totally saturated.

They limit CPU time to 90min per day last time I checked, but for large downloads you should be fine.

Adz · 1 Apr 2006 at 19:10

Beansprout said:
Dreamhost are a large company and buy bandwith in huge bulk. iirc they could actually afford for everyone to use their bandwidth allocation, though I'd bet it'd be completely unusable as the network and servers would get totally saturated.

They limit CPU time to 90min per day last time I checked, but for large downloads you should be fine.

We buy bandwidth in bulk but can't afford to sell 5mbit+ for $10/year

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Beansprout · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:49

Adz said:
We buy bandwidth in bulk but can't afford to sell 5mbit+ for $10/year .

My guess would be it'd be awfully contended if people did use it.

I wonder what their average user uses. Probably not even 2%.

Phaser · 2 Apr 2006 at 09:14

Space Cowboy said:
This wasn't quite clear from your post, but Dreamhost != Dream-hosting.

Really? Didn't know that!

Hmmm, a bit put off by the CPU limits, didn't realise they were in place.

robmiller · 2 Apr 2006 at 10:39

They're pretty hard to hit, from what I can tell. 90 minutes of CPU time is quite a lot.

Phaser · 3 Apr 2006 at 13:14

Does anyone here have experience with running multiple sites/forums off one dreamhost account?

1 other way to do it would be to put all my sites on my current hosting, and all downloadable files on the dreamhost one..

Thing is my current hosting is limited to 5 mySQL databases.

Beansprout · 4 Apr 2006 at 05:52

Phaser said:
Hmmm, a bit put off by the CPU limits, didn't realise they were in place.

As Rob says, 90min is quite a lot, so you won't hit it unless you're running a large site in which case you can afford (and probably need) more expensive hosting, or you're running badly-coded scripts.

robmiller · 4 Apr 2006 at 08:23

I've run 5 (admittedly low-traffic) sites off one account for the last 14 months and I've never once hit the CPU limit. If you're hitting it, you just need to either get some caching or an Adsense account