Dreamhost Virtual Server
With Dreamhost’s announcement today that they are getting into the virtual hosting business our favorite virtualization company Media temple might start losing customers.
However, I don’t think this is going to happen. A Dreamhost private server is really just a dedicated virtual server with more fine-grained controls; it’s essentially comparable to the DV plan that Media Temple runs. If you go with MT, for $50 / mo you get:
- 256 MB RAM
- 20 Gb
- 1 TB Bandwidth
- 300 Mhz
With Dreamhost, for $39.71 a month, you will get:
- 256 MB RAM
- 1.5 TB of Bandwidth
- 146 GB of Storage
- 256 Mhz
In other words, I would say their virtual hosting solutions offer services at roughly the same price points. But the real reason why Dreamhost sucks is that you can’t scale beyond a single box. They have nothing like MT’s high-end Nitro, which offers a quad-core machine with 4 GB of RAM. They have nothing like the Grid Service which offers a burstable, affordable web compute cloud.
If you go with Dreamhost and need to upgrade expect pain; the model isn’t built for that. These days I would not consider hosting with a company that didn’t offer a grid-based solution. They’re the future of webhosting.
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on August 5th, 2007 at 10:36 am
All of Dreamhosts plans offer “unlimited” databases and since they say you get “the same dedicated MySQL servers” with Dreamhost PS, there’s no evidence database performance would improve.
on August 5th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
You could in theory also run your own MySQL server inside your container. But MySQL is pretty RAM hungry.
on August 6th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Dreamhost’s PS also doesn’t have root access - another thing to consider if you’re trying to compare their latest offering with (mt)’s dv or other VPS hosts.
It looks like a different spin on “utility computing”, but yeah, it’s not clustered and it doesn’t offer root, so where’s the advantage?
M#
on March 10th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I currently use Dreamhost $7/mo hosting. I host 20 domains there. Not big though, but still. Now I ordered one $50 MediaTemple box and havent even finished the website (simple gallery2, i have 5 of them on dreamhost) so nobody even visits the site, but MediaTemple already complains that we use too much resources.
I guess this post is PR campaign sponsored by MT.
on May 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
once you “upgrade”you can’t downgrade. beware.