Comments on: Why Web Hosting is a Gamble

By: Nebriv

Nebriv — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:16:48 +0000

yeah man, it would be totally cool to work with you guys!

By: Agavriloaie Marius

Agavriloaie Marius — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:57:12 +0000

Nice one guys. i realy enjoyed this article!

By: Brian James

Brian James — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:11:10 +0000

Haven’t any of you figured out that the house always wins, and you always go home broke? ;) Personally I think I want to do business with a “business” instead of throwing snake eyes with Dreamhost’s “gambling”.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:29:13 +0000

Amen! The *only* real bandwidth drain in the internet is porn. I know because of this totally scientific experiment run back in 1992.

I ran an ftp server from my GT dorm room (we had ethernet back then). At first I tried shareware and cool desktop apps (make my computer do a vomit sound everytime I eject a disk)…I posted everywhere about my little site (ok, the two MUDs I was playing at the time) and got NO visitors.

As soon as I changed it out to cheesecake and centerfolds…BAM! 20-30 connections an hour non-stop! I was providing smut to the world!

So if a site has a top 100k Alexa ranking, they are more than likely doling out the skin vids…maybe not from the front page but you can bet there is some secret corporate porn vault that only the board members have access to…and they’ve shared that access with all their frat/college band buddies.

Or maybe I’m just being paranoid….

By: Hannes

Hannes — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:49:23 +0000

Someone please delete that spam above me. :o

By: Toby Beavers

Toby Beavers — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:37:04 +0000

Do you think there’s still a lot money to be made promoting casino websites through affiliate programs? Notice I say affiliate and NOT adsense. Anybody here tried the Pay Per Sale game? I saw a killer video by Carlos & Lupe who are making millions. Do a search for them or email me and I’ll give anyone the link. Cheerio…back to the chaos.

By: joshua

joshua — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:49:50 +0000

Thanks for that blog I needed a good laugh. I also never thought about casinos and hosting that way. I also learned something from that. I always thought how could you offer hosting so low then I realized not everybody uses even half the space and bandwidth.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:25:34 +0000

I would be there — Dream Machine season ender — if only my zip were about 10K closer. What about making a loyalty offer and its ‘catch’ within grasp of the rest of us DH Newsletter fans just once?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:04:38 +0000

> You make these people sound like paedophiles, surely you mean
> copyrighted porn .. not illegal porn. Big difference!

Well, copyright infringement is still illegal.

There are different levels of illegal and unethical-ness, too.

Actually, even among copyright infringers there are different levels, and we know this. We keep the degree of infringement in mind when we decide on whether to disable an account or just give a slap on the wrist - there’s a big difference between someone who puts one or two MP3s on their site versus someone distributing multiple DVD rips of Hollywood movies to everyone who cares to download it.

Luckily, the worst offenders are usually the most obvious ones. For the rest, that’s what DMCA Notifications are for.

- Jeff @ DreamHost

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:44:32 +0000

By “high roller” you mean someone who gives our establishment more money than your comps are worth? Sure, why not?