Posted by Al13n on 02/27/06 00:49

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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