Just The Facts

September 5, 2007 on 8:27 am | In New Features by Josh Jones | 38 Comments

Facts? Who still uses Facts? It’s all email now.

I’m bored, so for punishment this is going to be a very boring, and serious, and factual blog post.

We’ve now got DreamHost PS MySQL.

P.S… I Love You.

Eat THAT, commenters.

DreamHost PS MySQL is completely separate from regular DreamHost PS.

That means:

  • You can get it without DreamHost PS.

  • Get it if you just want isolated/protected/guaranteed MySQL resources for your databases.
  • ALL your MySQL dbs on your account are moved to your very own MySQL instance inside a Linux-VServer virtual private server on dedicated database hardware.
  • The dedicated database hardware means local, raided, high-performance SAS disks, the same stuff we use for our shared DB servers.
  • The pricing is the same as for regular DreamHost PS: $1/month per 10MB of RAM.
  • If you get both DreamHost PS and DreamHost PS MySQL, you’ll get 20% off your monthly fee for both services.

    • (Okay, those didn’t really follow from the lead-in sentence, but nevertheless, them’s the things you needs to know.)

    Once again, DreamHost PS MySQL is invitation only. But, you can get on the wait list at the same place as before: our panel, doi.

    My name is Thursday, I’m a mathematician.

    These are the facts as we understand them to be.

    38 Responses to “Just The Facts”

    1. Miikka Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 8:35 am

      This is excellent! I already subscribed to the MySQL too.

      Is there any idea how long is this “few weeks” we have to wait in the waitlist?

    2. Alex Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 9:29 am

      This sounds really good. Can you provide some guidance as to when someone would actually need a PS instance? A certain number ‘conueries’ or DB traffic?

    3. Pete Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 9:51 am

      @Alex: If your database has been causing problems for other customers, and you’re unable to optimize your SQL usage sufficiently, a MySQL PS would be a good solution.

      That’s just one idea, I’m sure we can think up others.

    4. Hobbes Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 10:04 am

      So, we basically need to pay ~$40 per month at Dreamhost to get the same performance we get from, say, MediaTemple for $20 per month.

      Or are these products REALLY worth the money?

    5. New DreamHost Private Servers MySQL: By Invitation Only Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 10:04 am

      [...] Introducing DreamHost PS MySQL, they say that all MySQL databased on your account can be moved to your very own MySQL instance inside a Linux-VServer virtual private server on dedicated database hardware (means local, raided, high-performance SAS disks, used for shared DB servers). Now you can pay to upgrade your site to private server services and test new traffic bursts with exceptional performance uptime and avoid server crashes. [...]

    6. Brujah Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 10:27 am

      If I’m on a shared server and I opt to go for a PS, would I be restricting myself to less cpu, ram, or mysql than I might actually already have access to now?

    7. Josh Jones Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 11:16 am

      Hey Hobbes..

      I think you’re comparing to the wrong things at media temple?

      http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/dv/ is what our DreamHost PS is like.. and it’s $50/mo at MT.

      http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/mysql-containers.htm is what our DreamHost PS MySQL is like, and they’re more expensive there too.

      Hey Bruja,

      Yes, there is a chance for that. With shared you’re in the city swimming pool with a lot of other people. Most of the time you’re fine, and you have a nice big pool to swim around in.. but every once in a while, somebody pees in the pool and ruins it for everybody.

      DreamHost PS is like a private pool at your house, maybe not as big as the community pool, but nice and clean and no weirdos messing it up.. and you can always pay more to get a private pool as big as the public pool if you really want it!

    8. Dylan Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 11:33 am

      Will we be able to set system variables using PS?

      Ex: ft_min_word_len=2

    9. Jay Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

      2 Questions.

      1) Do you have any idea how long till those of us “waiting” for Dreamhost PS will be given our invites?

      2) Is is possible to move sites over one at a time to make sure that there are no unforeseen errors?

      Thanks!

    10. Unofficial DreamHost Blog Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 1:43 pm

      Private MySQL Servers…

      When DreamHost launched Private Servers a month ago, the biggest complaint was that MySQL would still be a bottleneck, since it would continue to be run on shared servers.
      Now DreamHost introduces DreamHost PS MySQL.

      Now, you can get exactly the same …

    11. customerJoe Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

      How about yous guys work on the FilesForever idea? Maybe make the FF website NOT look like it was designed in 1995 and just a tad more reassuring for any potential customers. Not a peep or an update in a year… is it dead?

    12. MikeD Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 6:18 pm

      Josh,

      Your newsletters are awesome. They are the only company newsletter I actually read.

      Sincerely,
      The 1%

    13. Justin Gehring Says:
      September 5th, 2007 at 7:08 pm

      Now, if only you would allow for mysql replication with this service…

      -Justin

    14. VOO Says:
      September 6th, 2007 at 2:00 am

      Josh Said:
      “Most of the time you’re fine, and you have a nice big pool to swim around in.. but every once in a while, somebody pees in the pool and ruins it for everybody.”

      Josh, it doesn’t really RUIN it for everybody… just those with weak constitutions… the rest of us just put our faith in the chlorine!

    15. VOO Says:
      September 6th, 2007 at 2:01 am

      Course, I go swimmin in backwoods springs and creeks and avoid that altogether.

    16. misha Says:
      September 7th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

      wow – cool from DH to erase negative posts

    17. Butler Says:
      September 7th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

      Ok boring post (if you don’t want PS) but cool photo!

    18. chad Says:
      September 7th, 2007 at 10:01 pm

      How much RAM should I use for a Private Server MySQL?

    19. chad Says:
      September 7th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

      I forgot to ask, is it possible to store my web files on the LOCAL disk of a Private Server webserver … since NFS is a little slower than local disk.

    20. James Printer Says:
      September 8th, 2007 at 12:48 am

      MediaTemple is unreliable shite.

    21. ROFLOCTOPUS Says:
      September 8th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

      There is no way that can be considered a boring post – did you SEE that “Dreamhost P.S.” roll-over image? My God…

      Jones, you’ve done it again!

    22. Steve Says:
      September 9th, 2007 at 8:51 am

      I second the vote to allow use of the local disk for Privater web Servers.

    23. Mark Says:
      September 9th, 2007 at 10:04 pm

      +1 for local disk access to store our web files on a DreamhostPS.

      I absolutely love the PS idea. It *would* become perfect if we could store some web docs locally, say … nothing more than 50-100MB.

      Then letting use run NGINX or LIGHTTPD instead of Apache to serve our files crazy fast from local disk. Now that would be perfect!

      Local disk > NFS on speed
      NGINX/LIGHTTPD > Apache on speed

      Whooo baby, I’m just getting excited at the idea of that.

    24. PJ Cabrera Says:
      September 10th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

      LOL, I actually read to the end of your newsletter. I found it hilarious. I must have been so bored out of my mind! ROFL

    25. Psychosmruf Says:
      September 10th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

      Do you guys know whether or not we can leave PS if, for example, we decide we want and find that it’s seriously impeding our websites? I.e., we’ve increased the vCPU and vMEM and we still aren’t satisfied and are currently paying forty bucks more than what we were paying in the community pool? Can we go back to our normal plans?

    26. Jimmy Says:
      September 10th, 2007 at 7:24 pm

      + 1

      I also favor local disk storage for PS. Now it’s understandable that everyone can’t have their GB of storage on local disk b/c that is not feasible.

      But it would be awesome if we could store something like a few MB of important web documents (e.g. /index.html etc..) on the local disk for fast access of important web pages.

    27. Trey Says:
      September 11th, 2007 at 5:46 am

      +1 for local disk storage on DreamhostPS

    28. Ted Says:
      September 11th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

      —————–

      What’s the waiting listing timeframe for someone who signs up for a PS today?

      ————–

    29. Xavier Says:
      September 15th, 2007 at 11:12 am

      +2 for local disk access for storing HTML/CSS/JS files on a private server (PS).

    30. Bob Says:
      September 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am

      C’mon, time for another blog update surely! I could do with a laugh!!!

    31. Anonymous Says:
      September 19th, 2007 at 7:43 am

      Theses are the same pieces of shit that host 911wasfunny. Real fuckin nice, fuckin scumbags.

    32. 1 Says:
      September 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

      Anonymous, if you don’t like freedom of speech, you’re in the wrong country.

    33. 孙 Says:
      September 19th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

      不错

    34. Just The Facts - Web [ Ectio.us ] Says:
      September 20th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

      [...] From blog.dreamhost.com [...]

    35. Jonathan Says:
      September 21st, 2007 at 8:35 am

      So…
      I have some website on a dreamhost account for one year and a half now.
      It sucks. Hard. Really…
      I have never seen such an aweful host as dreamhost in my entire carreer.

      Now… To get decent performance (ie. not waiting 30 seconds per page load), I would have to pay 5 times what I normally pay ?

      Nevermind, I’m going to another host, you just pissed me off.

    36. Anonymous Says:
      September 23rd, 2007 at 12:44 am

      Would a dreamhostps mysql account/option providing a private mysql instance mean I could get access to the transaction log files and be able to process them through mysqlbinlog?

      I *think* I’m right that it’s something I couldn’t do currently with a non-PS account (though not technically impossible, I just couldn’t find anything in the support wiki about it so I think it is unavailable), and would be a real selling point to me to have access to point-in-time restore recovery.

      MySQL’s transaction log ‘visibility’ (/editability) is one of the things I like best about it and gives me some peace of mind against a rogue hacker hitting my site in the middle of the night and destroying enough to force a rollback to my last backup.

      Thanks.

    37. Anonymous Says:
      October 30th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

      Freedom of speech is making fun of dead people? Have some decency! Fucks like you should have been in the towers that day, fucks like you should have throat cancer.

    38. db Says:
      October 31st, 2007 at 4:39 pm

      I don’t get the post #37. Its called comedy, satire if you’re referring to the Jsut the facts quote.

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