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alect
July 29th, 2006, 12:43
the dreamhost.com has a plan like this,and $7.95/month

1 FREE domain registration
www.yourname.com
UNLIMITED domains hosted
UNLIMITED subdomains
20 GB Disk, 1 TB Transfer:confused4
3000 Mailboxes, 75 Shell/FTP Users

what do u think of this,can I trust them?
ExileHosting
July 29th, 2006, 12:46
All i can say is, TREAD CAREFULLY, search around, read some reviews!!!, i personally wouldnt trust them
alect
July 29th, 2006, 12:54
All i can say is, TREAD CAREFULLY, search around, read some reviews!!!, i personally wouldnt trust them
I agree..
what's the normal price like that plan?
XeonGX
July 29th, 2006, 13:41
well maybe 12 for normal hosts
XeonGX
July 29th, 2006, 13:46
al though
why would you need 20GB of space


dont order it if you arent gonna use it
iiPanel
July 29th, 2006, 14:09
$7.95 for 20GB - 1TB
That's nearly a semi-dedi. specs. lol
Can they give 80GB - 4TB BW for $31.8? :rolleyes2
If yes then I would get 10 of those
Dini
July 29th, 2006, 14:35
read carefully, that price is for annual payments. Otherwise you have to pay a $30 setup fee I think.

I managed to get an account for $10 bucks a year with a coupon just to try them, they're not that bad. My account gets bigger every week :S scary, I will have like a full server by the end of the year.

They have great tech support.. I can't say nothing good about their plans though
Richard
July 29th, 2006, 14:56
They suspended my account for “excessive CPU usage”... A whole year's payment gone after 5 days... I was only running a phpBB forum (It did have over 2,000 members though... but still)

They don't allow you to use that much bandwidth, the bandwidth they allow you to used to agree with their "CPU usage" rules is about 2GB/day any more than that, and they will suspend your account on the grounds that you are using "Too much CPU". So really, your getting about 60GB bandwidth a month.

Another thing to be careful about; when you get over 3GB disk usage, they will check your account's files for "illegal" files or files that don't comply with their TOS, and if they find any, they suspend your account right away and normal don't unsuspended it.

I would never go near Dreamhost again.
Dini
July 29th, 2006, 15:17
They suspended my account for “excessive CPU usage”... A whole year's payment gone after 5 days... I was only running a phpBB forum (It did have over 2,000 members though... but still)

They don't allow you to use that much bandwidth, the bandwidth they allow you to used to agree with their "CPU usage" rules is about 2GB/day any more than that, and they will suspend your account on the grounds that you are using "Too much CPU". So really, your getting about 60GB bandwidth a month.

Another thing to be careful about; when you get over 3GB disk usage, they will check your account's files for "illegal" files or files that don't comply with their TOS, and if they find any, they suspend your account right away and normal don't unsuspended it.

I would never go near Dreamhost again.

Wow.. Better start removing files :lol:

I payed like 10 bucks, so I'm exploting my bandwidth and my space. If they suspend me, I'll start a enormous campain against them
ldcdc
July 29th, 2006, 19:06
the dreamhost.com has a plan like this,and $7.95/monthIf you're going to try them out, look for one of the $97 off coupons that are floating around. A google search should help you find quite a few of them. :)

Other than that, http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-about-overselling/ can be a very nice, revealing read.
shambler66
July 30th, 2006, 01:55
1 TB Transfer and 20 GB of Space!

All I can say is wow!! HAHAAHA Talk about overselling!

I've seen a lot of bad reviews of Dreamhost on websites like http://webhostingjury.com which is a great site btw.
CollarHosting
August 18th, 2006, 00:04
Dreamhost is a fairly good host
Host4Cheap
August 18th, 2006, 01:29
OVERSELLING AT ITS BEST

Check out Servage.net or Siteground.com and you shall be shocked :confused4
If you wanna go for Dreamhost, 10$ for a full year is you should pay like i do :lol:
amitnyamtabad
August 18th, 2006, 04:55
Thanks for the review.. I tthinking about DreamHost
CollarHosting
August 20th, 2006, 18:13
Its actually not overselling if you closely look at their TOS, the specifically state that only a small percent around 3gb of webspace can be ocupied by media related files, the rest of the files are to be html or dynamic pages which prevents alot of bandwidth loss. They will also suspend your account for too much cpu usage, if you are using around 40gb a day then you will be suspended even though that only adds up to 1200gb on a 1500gb bandwidth plan or even a 4000gb bandwidth plan
utcrazy
August 20th, 2006, 19:49
Yes, they do monitor any CPU usage, it prevents you from using very much bandwidth.
Flaunt
August 26th, 2006, 10:10
If you're going to host media and don't want to incur excessive cpu usage, try zipping up your files.

If I remember correctly, the code for the 9.34 per year cost was: 777

It could have been MAX though.
ldcdc
August 27th, 2006, 01:26
AFAIK the 777 coupon code is expired now.
Flaunt
August 27th, 2006, 04:07
:/ Well, there are a lot of$ 97 coupons anyway
unlisted80
August 29th, 2006, 10:58
wow... thanks for the info :) i was about to sign up but after i read this i close my browser dreamhost right away..lol

thanks again