DreamHost is really a fantastic hosting company, and you know of course they aren't perfect, but nobody truly is. If you want 100% uptime on every single piece of hardware your site touches, you're going to pay out the rear end for it. If you're satisfied with paying an exceptionally low price for an exceptional amount of resources with hard working people serving you, then this is just a great place to be.
The deal you see sitting over to the left is actually a tad out of date, in a good way though! When I signed up with DreamHost in the middle of July, 2007, I got the cheapest plan at $9.95/month and got in principle about 150GB of disk space and 1.5TB (yes, that's terabytes) of bandwidth per month.
Interestingly enough, I ended up with the deal you see above (minus the cheaper price) with 200GB of storage and 2TB or bandwidth. I had a short convo with a friend of mine that works at DreamHost and while she thought it might have been due to a bug, she just shrugged and let me keep the extra digs.
How cool is that?
Well, I did say the above plan is out of date, and here's the how and why: DreamHost just hit their 10th anniversary a little while ago and scrapped all their plans, replacing them with one awesome plan with the following resources:
So what about those weekly increases? Now it's +40GB a month for bandwidth and +2GB a month for disk space. Mmmmm, sweet.
But what about service quality?
Good question, that's really where you've got to chew on leather if you're going to be serious about hosting. Nobody in the world has 100% uptime - hardware dies and there's nothing you can do about it other than replace it as fast as possible and try to have some redundancy in place. DreamHost does both of those things very well, but downtime does occur.
It's simply unavoidable.
Is it bad? It can be. Earlier in the year the building that DreamHost is hosted in (there are a lot of other large business customers in that building with them who weren't very happy about this) experienced a long-term power shortage and a number of power outages that taxed a not-so-state-of-the-art backup power system. That's something you'll have to deal with almost anywhere - that's just how it is in California.
That's all behind us now though, and there haven't been any power problems lately. A number of tenants left the building freeing up power for everyone else, and the building owner put a lot of money and time into fixing their backup systems. I have not personally experienced a power outage since I've been a DreamHost customer (no joke.)
Am I Happy Here?
Very. As far as I can tell watching my traffic graphs, I've not had any significant downtime on my server (that I'm hosted on.) As of this writing, it hasn't been rebooted in over a month because it just hasn't needed it. Everything I needed to host this blog was pre-installed (other than the blog itself - DreamHost doesn't support automatic installation of Movable Type although they do support WordPress.)
With this much bandwidth and storage space, I figure I can support over 100,000 hits per day (actually closer to twice that) before ever coming anywhere close to my old bandwidth limit. With the new numbers, it couldn't be a better situation, and for the price? Unbeatable if you ask me.
If this all sounds good to you, then click either the image above or this link and sign-up today. With a 97-day refund, how can you not?
The deal you see sitting over to the left is actually a tad out of date, in a good way though! When I signed up with DreamHost in the middle of July, 2007, I got the cheapest plan at $9.95/month and got in principle about 150GB of disk space and 1.5TB (yes, that's terabytes) of bandwidth per month.Interestingly enough, I ended up with the deal you see above (minus the cheaper price) with 200GB of storage and 2TB or bandwidth. I had a short convo with a friend of mine that works at DreamHost and while she thought it might have been due to a bug, she just shrugged and let me keep the extra digs.
How cool is that?
Well, I did say the above plan is out of date, and here's the how and why: DreamHost just hit their 10th anniversary a little while ago and scrapped all their plans, replacing them with one awesome plan with the following resources:
- Disk storage: 500GB
- Monthly transfer limit: 5TB (that's 5,000GB)
- E-Mail accounts: Unlimited
- MySQL Databases: Unlimited
- Bandwidth: +16GB per week
- Disk storage: ???
So what about those weekly increases? Now it's +40GB a month for bandwidth and +2GB a month for disk space. Mmmmm, sweet.
But what about service quality?
Good question, that's really where you've got to chew on leather if you're going to be serious about hosting. Nobody in the world has 100% uptime - hardware dies and there's nothing you can do about it other than replace it as fast as possible and try to have some redundancy in place. DreamHost does both of those things very well, but downtime does occur.
It's simply unavoidable.
Is it bad? It can be. Earlier in the year the building that DreamHost is hosted in (there are a lot of other large business customers in that building with them who weren't very happy about this) experienced a long-term power shortage and a number of power outages that taxed a not-so-state-of-the-art backup power system. That's something you'll have to deal with almost anywhere - that's just how it is in California.
That's all behind us now though, and there haven't been any power problems lately. A number of tenants left the building freeing up power for everyone else, and the building owner put a lot of money and time into fixing their backup systems. I have not personally experienced a power outage since I've been a DreamHost customer (no joke.)
Am I Happy Here?
Very. As far as I can tell watching my traffic graphs, I've not had any significant downtime on my server (that I'm hosted on.) As of this writing, it hasn't been rebooted in over a month because it just hasn't needed it. Everything I needed to host this blog was pre-installed (other than the blog itself - DreamHost doesn't support automatic installation of Movable Type although they do support WordPress.)
With this much bandwidth and storage space, I figure I can support over 100,000 hits per day (actually closer to twice that) before ever coming anywhere close to my old bandwidth limit. With the new numbers, it couldn't be a better situation, and for the price? Unbeatable if you ask me.
If this all sounds good to you, then click either the image above or this link and sign-up today. With a 97-day refund, how can you not?
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