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- pootify, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Actually, as of May 2006, Dreamhost no longer has CPU minute restrictions. Now it's mainly "as long as you're not crashing the server".
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/V8.05_May_2006 - AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23What GoDaddy has in boobs DreamHost has in features. It's not a sales stunt.
- madferret, on 10/12/2007, -13/+34Just use promotional code 9999
You'll receive $99.99 off - jacobmp92, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Why whenever someone posts a topic about DreamHost, everyone spams promo codes?
@thrakath, the 9999 code is valid, and not spam. DreamHost created this code themselves.
Speaking of DreamHost, they just upped their bandwidth to 2 TB/mo and space to 200GB... wow, that's more than my hard drive. - pootify, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Topic links to the company blog, which explains the philosophy behind it. Here's the actual site:
https://files.dreamhost.com/ - phileplanet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I just saw this in the panel
"During the beta, it is $5.00/GB to store your files forever. This is a one time fee .. it is not per month!"
I think it's still pretty good. - burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Now it's mainly "as long as you're not crashing the server"."
...and they say if you are, they'll just try to move you to a faster server. - mpeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10how are they promoting piracy when their service allows the legitimate owner of the music to sell it through the net for a low fee?
- craive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11http://dreamhost.com/hosting.html
Has the code right in the middle of the page, above their plans. - RawkBob, on 02/13/2009, -0/+9I'd like to see you keep hundreds of servers up and running 24/7, if you compare the amount of servers they have down compared to how many they actually have it's a very low percentage.
Granted, they had some major network problems earlier this year, which have now been sorted and they've explained this really well on their blog.
The new site design is nice. - Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Perhaps.. but unlike GoDaddy, Dreamhost is an awesome hosting company. I've been using them for about 4 years now and I can't even remember the last downtime I experienced.
- epchris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't think it's suposed to be limited to just music either. I imagine you can sell just about any digital content you create: pictures, literature, art, just about anything.
- flameboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Arnt they going to have problems with people "selling" songs they dont own the copyright to?
- whfsdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7 electrogeek, it's not really a crack + there is quality loss.
- farfromsubtl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7GOD I love dreamhost.
- whfsdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Mine is free to store during the beta. I'm assuming DH is basing the beta price on how long you've been with them.
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'd like to see other hosts who are so candid about their downtime that they post it on the web for the entire world to see.
It's a sign of confidence in their systems. Given that they're one of the largest hosts, it also makes sense they're going to have more downtime than normal (think WoW/Blizzard) versus FF11. - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@flameboy
i dont think _they_ will have a problem with it. - superdoug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6man, dreamhost just redid their whole site
looks good - doomsquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I don't have a recommendation for a web host review site, but incidentally, DreamHost has a blog talking about just how scammy many of those review sites are!
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/04/web-hostings-dirty-laundry/ - ThePharaoh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I've got DreamHost and I absolutely love it. This is just another service that makes them that much better than any other hosting company.
- gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You're an idiot. Did you even read the article, or comments, or replies to your moronic, misinformed comments? Obviously not. The service DOES NOT promote piracy, it's for artists to sell their own work over the internet. It's for small-time and indie bands.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's not a file sharing service. It's a "have your own iTunes store" service.
FTA:
What is it?
It’s a new service (during the beta only open to DreamHost Customers) that allows you to sell your own digital files, a la iTMS.. but with a few key differences:
(you can 'share' the tracks you've bought with friends, but that's not really the focus. This is an iTunes competitor, not a bittorrent competitor) - phileplanet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Okay, I just tried this out and for my 32MB Short film, it costed me $0.19 I have been with Dreamhost for about a year.
Not bad I would say!
https://files.dreamhost.com/330/What_If.mov - darwin22, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6great, new features without fixing the e-mail problems that have been plaguing my dreamhost account... just what I need!
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can, in fact it happened today, while they were switching out the hardware after a crash. But it was over within 15 minutes or less.
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mine is $1/GB and I've been with them since 6-8-05.
- Slackwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Glad to be a DreamHost user. :D
They always keep pumping out great new things, it's definitely the best web host I've ever had. :P - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"mp3.com? whatever happened to them anyway....???"
They went under *years* ago, it was bought by CNet. They moved the artist service to music.download.com ... for a while the MP3.com domain was some hokey "music tech" and general info site. Though from the looks of things they're opening up artist pages on MP3.com, even though it appears to be sold out to the major labels. So they'll kinda be picking up where MP3.com left off. - cheesy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Trusonic signed with 250000 of the artists of old (non c|net) mp3.com and partnered up with http://www.garageband.com
- randost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The bottomline for Dreamhost is to not use the shared hosting for critical websites. I've been with DH for 4 years now. I've experienced multiple downtime and email issues among 4-5 clients the past 9 months or so (infrequent downtime but present before this).
Unfortunately, adding these services seems to have drawn them away from the core resonsibilities of providing consistent uptime (across all servers) and decent email performance.
That said, while most of my new critical sites go to shared hosting providers like ICDsoft or Site5, I keep my basic DH account because of the ability to have unlimited sites, subdomains and massive storage for other projects that just aren't that important. - robinvfr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had DH for about two months now. I haven't had a single issue.
I moved to DH from HostDime (HD hmm...weird). I was with HostDime for nearly two years. In the beginning things were pretty good. But for the last 3 or 4 months, on a daily basis I would get sql errors every night at around midnight for about an hour. When it started to happen during the day, I figured it was time to move.
So far I've been VERY happy with DH. I love the fact that they increase my storage by 2GBs every week! Yesterday, on their 9th anniversary, they increased my storage from 60GBs (which was enormous in the first place) to 400BGs! Plus, they offer 4TBs of xfer bandwidth! That's unmatched. - xero9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ has some good threads. Might want to check them out
- findhostcoupons, on 03/15/2009, -0/+1It is not a surprize that Dream Host is a reliable company!
- Elias1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The price is definitely NOT calculated by how long you've been a customer (not alone at least).
I've been with them just under 2 years and I got $6/GB.
I signed my friend up a month or two ago and he's getting $3/GB. - AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Mine is free during beta too. I've been with them for 2 years now. For those of you who don't have it free how long have you been there?
- vammirato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone figure out the formula for the bandwidth charge? I've been here for 6-7 months and got $3/GB. I run the small plan, have a refered a few friends, and hardly use any of my 200GB but a decent amount of CPU.
With regards to the actual service,
DH has been EXCELLENT for uptime...once it gets up. The basic services (dns, email, db setup) take longer than their "friendly whatever robots" claim but seem to resolve by the time service answers the email-only support my package affords.
Still it is a great bargain that is running many, many websites for my company. - vammirato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't you just burn it to cd and rip it back if you really, really want to?
besides, only .01% of my library is iTunes. Most still come off cds I've bought so I've got full rights on them.
Digital RESTRICTIONS Management - Kubaton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been a DreamHost user for years and it's stuff like this that's kept me there.
- andrewknight, on 09/16/2008, -0/+0Agreed with bzboy. Hosting with Dreamhost is not a good decision due to them lacking in many errors, especially support. "Files Forever" should never be a term related to hosting on the internet, there will always be mishaps. If you want to keep files, buy your own server, install your own O/S and plug your own damn fibre in, don't trust someone else...
Pokey
http://www.personalloans.com.au - podcastnyc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is one of those world changing features. If you can simplify the process of selling non-DRM files form a secure location with credit card processing then there's hardly a reason for musicians to utilize iTunes. The one major benefit of iTunes is the community aspect. People go there looking for music so maybe a band will get found.
The current Files Forever pricing model really doesn't work for musicians selling songs, because they would have to pay back $0.55 on each song sold. The model works better for files sold at $1.99 and up. - forteller, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Actually, they recently started blocking BitTorrent:
http://torrentfreak.com/dreamhost-back-to-blocking-bittorrent/ - snubber, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5hey dumbass this is to sell music you own not via itunes. This has nothing to do with file sharing. Marked as innacurate.
They're making a music selling service that has all the advantages of stealing music, no drm and unlimited downloads but with the legitmacy of paying for that privlidge ONCE. - computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I've been there for about 2 months and I got 9.00.
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Anyone know of a good site that reviews web hosts?
- ickingfudiot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I've been a customer for over 3 years and it's $9/gb :(
- bzboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yep. These guys roll out new stuff all the time, but they can't keep basic services up for long-time users. They BLOW.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1mp3.com? whatever happened to them anyway....???
- heresy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I agree. Dreamhost hasn't had a very good track record for stability and uptime, especially lately. I guess you get what you pay for.
- steveo2112, on 10/12/2007, -10/+7It would be nice if Dreamhost put this much work/effort into keeping their customer's sites up and running...
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