Dreamhost St. Patrick's 92% off

by mapleoin on 3/17/2009, 1:51 PM with 42 comments
  • by daleharvey on 3/17/2009, 6:31 PM

    Dreamhost have a pretty bad reputation, but its amazingly good value as long as you understand a few things.

    You arent going to be live 24/7, in the 4 years or so ive been with them I have been down 3 times for more than a day, and a few sporadic is it down / is it up moments.

    It isnt going to be the fastest connection in the world, mine is reasonably fast, but it has slow moments.

    people hosting business critical applications are just asking for trouble.

    but past that, you have a lot of preinstalled software, svn takes a minute to set up, ssh access which you can install most things you want on and a silly amount of bandwidth / space. its pretty perfect for a first host, to put a blog up and share images folder etc.

    Part of their bad reputation is from how transparent they are, they are honest about when they go down and what the fault is, their sense of humour about everything grates some people, but I appreciate not being given a canned coorporate response

  • by tlrobinson on 3/17/2009, 8:51 PM

    I got one of these deals a few years ago... and I'm still with them paying $9.95, per month.

    They really get you hooked by giving you the first year for essentially free, and hoping you're just too lazy (like me) to switch after a year.

    As for the actual service, I haven't had many problems.

    Though I have noticed recently they aggressively cache some things (PHP pages that don't change?), which can make development very difficult. Anyone else notice this? Any workarounds.

  • by mokchuk_ on 3/17/2009, 4:34 PM

    If you want to see how much downtime they have see: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

    also a twitter feed http://twitter.com/dhstatus

    As a customer for the past 6 months, I have on occasions been unable to access the web based admin panel

  • by proee on 3/17/2009, 4:23 PM

    Is there any way for existing customer to get a discount on signing up for another year of hosting?

  • by Timothee on 3/17/2009, 2:52 PM

    It's surprising to see that coupon right on their homepage. Companies tend to be semi-open on great discounts. (meaning, they usually don't get out of their way that much to tell you you can save money)

    However, as far as I'm concerned, that works: after looking at the features (pretty much everything seems to be available, unlimited), I'm considering it.

    Anybody has any feedback on Dreamhost?

  • by firebug on 3/17/2009, 3:32 PM

    Are there bandwidth/data limitations with this deal?