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02-02-2006, 12:45 AM #1Newbie
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Curiosity about DreamHost
I was wondering for anyone who's had DreamHost, or knows anything about them. I really don't and would like to know, do they really allow you 1TB of bandwidth per month? Is there caps for this, or what? I would imagine they would have to have a really huge connection for this or just an unmetered connection.
Just curiosity....
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02-02-2006, 03:47 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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You should be asking DreamHost this question. A little advice, always read the terms of service before signing up with a web host that is offering so much for so little.
Also, do you really need 1 TB of bandwidth per month? If so, don't you think you should be going with a dedicated server instead of a shared plan?
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02-02-2006, 05:44 AM #3Web Hosting Guru
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They may have a clause in their TOS saying that they will cut you off as they deem necessary...so be sure to check it out. It seems unlikely that thye can actually give you that much, but who knows.
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02-02-2006, 06:09 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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How much does 1Tb of data transfer cost - $100, $500, $1000? It would certainly cost infinately more than you are paying, even for a dedicated server.
If I came to you and offered every cable/satellite TV channel on earth for $7.99 a month you'd smell a rat!
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02-02-2006, 09:10 AM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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I'm really dying to see how long this can last...
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02-02-2006, 01:43 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Yes, I am dying to see it too....
Well, it seems to be the big trend everyone and their grandma is jumping on these days... As if the customers would be dumb enough to swallow that simple bait?!
(I'm sure they are not THAT dumb, right?)
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02-02-2006, 03:08 PM #7Web Monkey
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Originally Posted by Nadabrahma
Someone here on WHT claimed to have moved 700Gb from DH over a week and that DH didn't say anything. I meant to try something similar but then realized that my own connection does not suffice and my ex-gf wouldn't like me to take her entire ADSL for one week... While I said "claimed", I have no reason to not believe. It's "just" some random files, and as you can see from that thread, I've had pretty similar consistent download speeds. In addition, my mp3 download site consumes so little CPU that I could probably move more that amount over a month.
OP: if you know that you're not getting the moon from the sky, understand that they're running their servers at pretty high loads and accept that they may not answer your tickets in 24h, Dreamhost may actually give you a pretty decent deal. If it's critical or high income operation, look somewhere else.Last edited by nettiapina; 02-02-2006 at 03:12 PM.
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02-03-2006, 02:52 AM #8WHT Addict
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I currently am with dreamhost and have that 1TB plan. They also add 8GB to your account each week. I am not sure why since I have yet to use even half of what my plan allows and that is even having 2 domains on the same account with them.
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02-03-2006, 02:56 AM #9WHT Addict
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Read the terms and services very carefully, they might have some kind of a capped rule after you go past a certain point.
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02-03-2006, 02:57 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by bluedreamer
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02-03-2006, 03:50 AM #11Aspiring Evangelist
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Originally Posted by whatever
Got to be something hidden here then there must something DH is doing to make that NEAR to happen, besides the "Most accounts do not even use 1% of their allowed bandwidth".
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02-03-2006, 04:47 AM #12Web Monkey
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Originally Posted by Rifat
Maybe it's just "economy of scale" kind of thing... When you have over 150 servers, one user using nearly 1TB/month does not matter anymore. If they all do... well, then you may be in deep sh*t. Except that they probably would just bog down your network in doing so, all getting crappy speeds or something.
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02-03-2006, 07:08 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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I tried their service with a vBulletin forum.
The forum started with a new database and reached 300 users online after 2 days.
Bandwidth is about 5GB per day, cpu minutes sending to my email is less than 1
The third day they suspended the site and asked me to optimise vBulletin
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02-03-2006, 11:47 AM #14Junior Guru Wannabe
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If you're transfering 5GB a day on a forum then you need a dedicated server or VPS (which they don't offer).
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02-03-2006, 08:30 PM #15Newbie
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For the record, I wasn't planning on buying from them, I was just curious if that was true or not lol.
I have my own hosting company, why would I buy elsewhere? Eh.. anyways.
Thanks for the answers fellas
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02-03-2006, 09:04 PM #16Web Hosting Guru
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Well as a hosting company owner you would have already known the answer to the question.
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02-16-2006, 07:15 AM #17New Member
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Originally Posted by PremiumHost
unfortunatelly even serving static sites, or even files you can be warned by dreamhost because resources usage
few days ago they temporarily switched off one of my sites, and warned me that it would be switched off permanently.
After that I analyzed my logs and found the problem - a few images (about 50kB each) were hotliked on some forum.
Then I calculated approx. bandwith use and the result is:
- hotliked images would use 168GB/month assuming constant load
- all of my other sites use about 20GB/month
so ... even using 200BG of bandwidth and serving 85% of static only traffic would be to much
Conclusion: 1TB is definitely unreal, but if you want to serve dynamic (php) pages even 20-50GB traffic would be too much, and you could be suspended by DreamhostLast edited by _xy_; 02-16-2006 at 07:19 AM.
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02-16-2006, 08:36 PM #18Retired Moderator
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After that I analyzed my logs and found the problem - a few images (about 50kB each) were hotliked on some forum.
Then I calculated approx. bandwith use and the result is:
- hotliked images would use 168GB/month assuming constant load
- all of my other sites use about 20GB/month
so ... even using 200BG of bandwidth and serving 85% of static only traffic would be to much