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Posted by roblevintennis on 02/27/06 03:26
Well, thanks again foer your input it's been quite helpful. I still
haven't made a choice and seem to be more indecisive on this than
anything else I've done LOL I'm leaning towards Bluehost as of
now...but that could change :0
Al13n wrote:
> roblevintennis@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >I've read quite a few complaints from people saying they got cut off
> >well below the bandwidth limit (probably cpu usage), but the number of
> >complaints seems pretty damn high.
>
> I can't say anything either way -- I've never had that happen and none of
> the people I know who use dreamhost have had it happen. That isn't to say
> it hasn't happened -- just my experience. It was only within the last year
> to year and a half they really increased the available bandwidth -- were
> these problems within that time or before?
>
> >Moreover, it seems that a lot of
> >older clients are noticing more and more problems with dreamhost's
> >control panel as of late and saying that it slows down to a halt.
>
> The Panel isn't as snappy as it could be, I'll give you that -- there's a
> lot of stuff you can do with it and it has had some really rocky periods.
> 2 years ago, maybe as recently as 1 year ago, it was painfully slow -- but
> I haven't had any significant problems with it in quite some time.
>
> >also say that since dreamhost has undertaken 'overselling', the
> >experience has worsened.
>
> I'm curious as to how the experience has worsened, as I've had no increase
> in outages, decrease in speed or anything else -- I almost wonder if they
> aren't getting flustered with Dreamhost becoming unknown and getting
> bigger. People do some times hate someone for growth whether or not the
> growth poses any problems. Maybe I'm just lucky and am on a good machine.
>
> As I've said before, i can't say these things aren't true but I can say
> they haven't been my experience.
>
> >that has probably several hundred shared accounts. Bluehost guy said
> >that you can have up to 20% of 1 cpu for that minute (they will
> >otherwise shut you down for the rest of the minute),
>
> I'm not sure what dreamhosts policy is on cpu usage -- obviously I've never
> used enough at once to find out where they shut you down ;)
>
> >has 4 cpu's available. So between those two, it seems that Bluehost my
> >be more lenient with cpu usage. I'm starting to feel like the ones that
> >are too good to be true in what they offer might just be that...ergh!
>
> Nothing is perfect, it's all about finding something you're comfortable
> with -- something that does the job you need it to. Some people need
> space, some bandwidth, others raw CPU power -- and there are hosts better
> geared toward each. I can't tell you who's best for what though :)
>
> >Out of curiousity, how much bandwidth/hits per month, etc., do you use
> >on dreamhost?
>
> I am not sure on the hit count, but I move between 6 and 20 gigs/wk http
> and another 1 or so/wk ftp transfer. It's pretty much all data, not too
> many downloads or anything so not terribly large numbers. I'm no google :)
>
> A.
>
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