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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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.
You could in theory also run your own MySQL server inside your container. But MySQL is pretty RAM hungry.
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#
I currently use Dreamhost $7/mo hosting. I host 20 domains there. Not big though, but still. Now I ordered one $50 MediaTemple box and havent even finished the website (simple gallery2, i have 5 of them on dreamhost) so nobody even visits the site, but MediaTemple already complains that we use too much resources.
I guess this post is PR campaign sponsored by MT.
once you “upgrade”you can’t downgrade. beware.
I was told by DH support that you can downgrade:
Me: “I have one more question
because I need to make sure. Is there any charge if we ever wanted to
switch back to shared hosting?”
DH: Nope! There is no fee to transfer back. Before moving back, however, your usage must be within the limits of a normal “happy hosting” account (since this is what you will be transferred back to). It also would not hurt to give us as much advance notice as is humanly possible, since it can take a few weeks to migrate you back under the best conditions. I hope I was able to answer your question, please let me know if you have any others.
It sucks!
waste your time and money!
I have a site often see internal erro 500 in my DH shared hosting,
so I dicided to try the PS.
It turns out PS needed around 1000Mb that is 100$/M for running my site smothly!
then i emailed the support to move back to my shared hosting,
but they said i have to drop my usage to 150Mb first,
i have no choice only to move my sites out to avoid they charging me 100$/M.
So i found a gridhosting plan at 20$/M somewhere else, moved all my sites out my dreamhost plan, it is much faster than my Dreamhost server.
but even after i moved all my sites out, my usage of memory is still around 250Mb, so they charged me 30$ for my PS plan and still dont let me move back to shared hosting.
also DH often disable your site without warning, which hurt both your taffic and the trust of your users to your site.
DH plan looks have more features than their rivals, but for a stable website, stay away from it!
Anhosting and midphase is even worse than DH.