June 1st, 2006
Dreamhost: No More CPU Limits. Good or Bad?
Dreamhost is clearly one of the larger web hosting companies in the business. I’ll risk my head and say that I’m sure quite a number of bloggers use Dreamhost’s shared hosting plans. Chances are, if you’re not using it, you’ve probably at least heard of it - whether good or bad news.
The good news about Dreamhost is that it’s cheap, and has barely any limits on storage, bandwidth, and all the extras (e.g. subdomains, add-on domains, mySQL databases, etc.). For US$7.95 per month, you’re talking about 1TB bandwidth and 20GB storage. And that’s before all the ridiculous discount coupons come into the picture.
The bad news? Overselling and CPU limits. In the past, Dreamhost used to institute a 60 CPU minute limit on all shared hosting accounts. This means that you’re unlikely to ever finish your bandwidth since you’ll tend hit your CPU limit first, especially for PHP-heavy sites like Wordpress blogs.
But recently, DH announced that it would be abandoning CPU limits. As long as your account doesn’t destroy the server its on, rack up all the CPU minutes you need to finish your 1TB bandwidth and 20GB storage.
Good? Not necessarily. Why? Because now, Dreamhost users (like me for some of my blogs) no longer have any set limits to look at. How many CPU minutes can I use before I’m stopped for “crashing the server”? But I guess most bloggers will never really have to handle something like this, especially if your blog software is well-optimised (with caching enabled and all). Unless, of course, you get more than 3000 hits per day on a single account.
But if you do get that kind of traffic, you probably can afford a dedicated server, right? Don’t tell me you were expecting to spend US$7.95 per month to host a blog or group of blogs getting an excess of 3000 hits/day…
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8 Comments
July 19th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Edit: Comment deleted (e-mail to commenter sent). No promotional “stunts” please.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:12 pm
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August 28th, 2006 at 8:29 am
The heavily-promoted 1and1.com web host now offers 1 free blog site that’s run by WordPress with each of its hosting plans. So you can register your domain, host a site AND include a blog in it for as little as $2.94 per month.
I’m just a 1and1.com user, not a shill for them.
(bloghelper - you can email me at the above address and I’ll confirm via my home email if you want to be sure I’m not a shill.)
August 28th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
No worries, but to my knowledge 1&1 doesn’t provide hosting for Asians.
November 6th, 2006 at 2:27 am
Hi
Are you kidding?
3000 hits per day, thats not even 500 pageviews.
80 users gives 500 pageviews which is about 5000 hits…
Check your webstats for users, pageviews and hits.
with 3000 hits, like 50 unique per day you prob earn 20 cent from google adsense. Yeah you can afford diticated (grumble) NOT!
You need 10.000 pageviews to afford a deticated which is ALOT of hits! Crappy article!
December 6th, 2006 at 1:40 am
Certianly it it good. been using it for a long time, love it! Cheap and realiable. I pay only about $5 a month after using the promo code RFX50 which give me $50 rebate. No regret.
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?252837 plus promo code RFX50 if you pay monthly this promo code is better RFX30, which gives you $30 off from $59.90
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Kelvin, why are you spreading your referral links?
July 10th, 2007 at 3:33 am
I think it is a good one, since if we are too crowded they will find a new home for us. Very supportive.
FThia
dh77plus1domain.blogspot.com
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