In general, I love Dreamhost. I recommend it. But I will say that when I compare notes with my colleagues who are on other plans (granted, for the most part more expensive plans) their reports of downtime are significantly less than mine. Just check out http://www.dreamhostsupport.com for the past few days and see the kinds of nightmares at least most Dreamhost users have had to put up with.
Now i'm well aware of the fact that a lot of this is or seems to be outside the control of the hosting service. But when they have repeated equipment failures and breakdowns, I want to ask: (1) are they investing in quality hardware or cutting corners; (2) are they placing max load on servers in an effort to make their low pricing profitable rather than leaving some margin for error; (3) is their tech staff up to the job of monitoring hardware for potential failures before they happen? I don't know the answers, but those seem to me to be legit questions. I've asked them. I get repeated assurances that they know what they're doing. But even though that seems to be true most of the time, it is questionable often enough to make me a little guarded at the moment about touting them too loudly. On 7/18/06, Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:27 AM Jul 18, 2006, Bill Marriott wrote: > Stephen, > >> As far as upload speed, unless you have a T1 or Frame Relay, >> you're never >> going to get more than 300k/second UPLOAD from a residence on even >> cable! > > Depends on your cable provider. My Comcast line is 8Mbps down/ > 768Kbps up. > DreamHost transfers use about 50% of my bandwidth up, about 70% > down. My > other host saturates the line either direction. I had the same problem with JaguarPC. They could not saturate my cable modem and blamed the problem on me. I tried a another host and found that the bandwidth was there, but the features were not. I ended up going back to JaguarPC and got a semi dedicated line for $30.00/month and now have the features and speed I need. I think that a lot of these sub $10/month plans have hundreds of accounts on the same server and are not able to handle the growing demands. Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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