Comments on: What a CON!

By: Web Hosting Companies that are NOT boring. « WebWare, Web Hosting, Software, Publishing

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:48:24 +0000

[...] a pretty good job in persuing innovation. i thought it was pretty impressive when they pushed out DreamHost PS in 2007. unfortunately, it appears that PS is not to well received. but those guys will sort it [...]

By: dan

dan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:23:50 +0000

So, eatmorewhale.com? Say Whuuut?

By: girllooklett

girllooklett — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:47:17 +0000

are boat ugly all man

By: HostingCon 2008 pt.3 (the non-shitty parts) « WebWare, Web Hosting, Software, Publishing

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:59:04 +0000

[...] isnt a total con. I had a chance to catch up with some friends and some clients. Had some good beef at [...]

By: HostingCon 2008 (really? same crap again) pt.1 « WebWare, Web Hosting, Software, Publishing

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:05:43 +0000

[...] wish I was as good as a writer as Josh – So that I can articulate how much it [...]

By: db

db — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:42:18 +0000

I just reread the article again. I didn’t know that about hostgator. Thanks for the heads up. Amazing what you find out when you read between the lines.

By: Tiuca

Tiuca — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:08:43 +0000

I cant believe all this things happend!

By: Pessoa

Pessoa — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:24:26 +0000

Dreamhost PS sucks.

I suggest to everybody that they should not come up with the idea of hiring him. Besides once activated they put a lot of snags to drop you on you or even they try simply to eliminate your account without no reason. The data that they put before hiring are totally false and can multiply for 4 or 5. It is an authentic theft. Ad very seriously.

By: DreamHost Blog » Just The Facts

DreamHost Blog » Just The Facts — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:35:21 +0000

[...] Eat THAT, commenters. [...]

By: Heikki

Heikki — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:24:50 +0000

(As seen on Dreamhosters’ blog.)

I’ve already received a Dreamhost PS. It works about the way promised: no root, but your own protected process space. Pretty much the same as shared server, only not as much shared.

The downside is quite obvious, when you think of it: 150Mhz/150MB(+150MB swap) is not going to get you anywhere. You have full access to your own little machine, but you can’t even momentarily burst to the full capacity of the server when you need it. If you run out of memory+swap, the PHP scripts instantly give the good old Internal Server Error. While it’s really easy to up the memory, it’s quite hard to see exactly what’s going on.

I have to admire how Dreamhost executed this. The “Adjust CPU/Memory” bar is brilliant. It looks so easy and hides the technical details below. Also, there has to be a lot of legroom on these servers, since the users are constantly fiddling with their sliders.