anyone heard of dreamhost?

[JustOneUK]

I was looking at one of their offers $8 month for 20GIG H/D space...and get this.... 1 TERABYTE of bandwidth/month (1000GIG)

have you heard of it before?
Looks interesting to me but you know how these things are... :?

James

(edit) sorry forgot the URL, its.... dreamhost.com :oops:

[sapphirewebdesign]

sounds a bit too good to be true!

[Mac Yeti]

Yep, I came across these when I was looking for new hosting, they did seem to have a pretty good reputation but I can't recommend them as I chose to go with Matrixx in the end, and I'm really pleased I did as they have so far been fab...

[Quan]

Dreamhost, is actually a decent company, I can't say it is so first hand, but I know this girl with this sit at www.lissaexplains.com and she seems very satisfied wtih the hosting. She says it is "the first company that actually seems almost as good as it claims"

[GaryReid]

Dreamhost are a pretty big host and if you check around they have a pretty good rep. Try searching on webhostingtalk.com.

I would take the bandwidth with a pinch of salt. 1000GIG at wholesale would cost around $200 a month from a 'cheap' low quality provider and between $600 and $1000 a month from a good quality transit provider, especially if it's redundant, BGP4 etc.

On a more practical level you would need a pretty sophisticated server to be able to deliver that amount of bandwidth a month, the CPU usage, disk I/O and memory usage it would need would kill most servers.

That being said it is a basic requirement of most hosts business model to 'oversell' the industry term not mine, in other words they rely on a percentage of people never using any where near their alloted quotas. The key, however, to making this a realistic and honest model is you should always be able to deliver what you offer if the customer requires it.

So, check their TOC carefully.

Gary

[DarrenC]

I understand Wordpress.org use them as one of their webhosting partners. Don't know anything about them other than that.