DreamHost.com are Overselling!
Posted in Hosting, Web and technology by Khaled on July 7th, 2006
Yes! DreamHost are Overselling and they acknowledge it! “yes, we are overselling” they say! you don’t believe me? here’s the link to the official DreamHost Blog post where they admit it and claim that it is is the right and smart thing to do in the webhosting business!
Overselling occurs when a host offers a plan to clients with huge features of disk space and Bandwidth for a low price but is, in reality, unable to provide all that amount of ressources hoping that the client (or most of them at least) won’t use all those features! This often come with CPU usage restrictions!!
Dreamhost are offering for just $7.95/month:
-1 FREE domain registration www.yourname.com
- UNLIMITED domains hosted
- UNLIMITED subdomains
- 20 GB Disk, 1 TB Transfer
- 3000 Mailboxes, 75 Shell/FTP Users
That’s huge for that price!! but it seems to work very well! They even have a Ruby on Rails hosting which is a bit slow but seems to be OK. They are among few webhosts that offer Ruby and Ruby on Rails Hosting.
I’ve read many good posts about them, I’ve read bad ones and they are not really my favourite hosting company! I am planning to buy a plan from them as they offer RoR hosting as I said above while my current host does not!
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Xavi says:
Well you know what as you said in your last paragraph they are good, I once had something like 23GB Bandwidth consumption for one day and it was not a problem at all; everything kept running smoothly
Their prices are low, overselling or not they are the best for me.
July 13th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Master says:
As I said many people at SP or WHT were thinking that Dreamhost is among the best hosting companies, also it is the host of many great designers and programmers like Snook.ca etc and it is also true that the Bandwidth, The Diskspace they are offering are awesome!
Still they are overselling!! wether it is good or bad I can’t tell that this is 100% bad or 100% good!
July 13th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Jameson78 says:
They might be overselling but just as Xavi said they are very very good !!
November 28th, 2006 at 12:20 pm