Comments on: It’s all about power.

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:02:30 +0000

‘Now if you REALLY want to be the almighty uber hosting company, impress me with some Apple Xserve Servers in your rack and you have a customer and partner for life!’

Unfortunantly, frank. Xserves suck, but the main problem is the OS.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:10:36 +0000

AMD SERVERS are AWESOME!

By: Scott Nolan

Scott Nolan — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:19:16 +0000

Ever look into VIA Eden line Mini-ITX motherboards in server rackmount chassis? When I was shopping around for a solution (before I found out how excellent DreamHost is) I was considering leasing rack space and putting together my own ultra-low power servers.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/clusterserver/ (only 14watts, fully loaded!)
Oh, and thats TWO servers in 1U of rack space, running fanless and low-power.

AMD/Intel is certainly faster, but are your servers really CPU bound or are they I/O bound like the rest of us?

Just a suggestion.

By: ofshadows.com

ofshadows.com — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:31:28 +0000

Thanks for the perspective on power economy.

Can I leave a suggestion here? Can you add the Date/Time stamp to the RSS feed headlines? I was looking at it as “Livebookmark” thing in firefox, and it seems like it would be useful to have those in the heading.

Then again, I think the “offsite status page” is a service maybe you should resell. Lord knows a few of the other services I use could benefit from that kind of solution.

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:17:50 +0000

“I love the additional bandwidth and storage… but isn’t there any worry of server saturation?”

That’s the main thing I’m worried about. A crap load of people will be signing up now due to the 1tb 20gig stats. I like dreamhost for its stability and great downstream speed.

By: taekwondave

taekwondave — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:56:39 +0000

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By: Nate MC

Nate MC — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:28:42 +0000

As an AMD fanboy if you start using them, I’d love to move my site over to one of those so I could put the powered by AMD logo back on my site.

I loves mah AMD.

By: Minh Nguyen

Minh Nguyen — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:15:10 +0000

I love the additional bandwidth and storage… but isn’t there any worry of server saturation?

By: Yabo

Yabo — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:31:09 +0000

Dreamhost, I love you ! I just renewed my hosting plan and BANG, two days later you come up with that ! You just earned a lifetime client !!! A small one but an happy one !

By: TjL

TjL — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:55:20 +0000

Ha! I just finished watching Superman II with my son Ethan (of the very famous Dreamhosted Daily Dose of Ethan) who received a Superman cape from his aunt for Christmas and has worn it pretty much every day since. Hey, do you suppose if you switched to G5s you could light California on fire?