#1 2008-01-05 08:33:50
- tolgafiratoglu
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Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
Does it worth for $34/month ? http://www.dreamhostps.com/
Are there similar services in the web?
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#2 2008-01-05 09:00:01
Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
Dreamhost is known to over sell their capacity. Do some (Google) researching for "VPS" - virtual private server, which will be more like $75/mo. Another options is a dedicated server, which runs about $300/mo.
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#3 2008-01-06 17:47:32
Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
Anyone else? I too am considering Dreamhost PS.
Geohelper - DreamhostPS is new, so there isn't really any precedent for that. I assume that they are not overselling this as you are guaranteed a certain amount of processor time and RAM, and they couldn't guarantee this without actually having it available. My understanding is that this is a VPS.
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#4 2008-01-06 17:57:59
- llntrvr
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
i am using dreamhost ps and it works great
i have been using dreamhost for 2 years
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#5 2008-01-06 18:30:12
- ifunk
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
I use slicehost.com - was an interesting process getting everything installed and configured the way i want it, but performance has been good and it's cheap. Not really an option for people who want it easy 
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#6 2008-01-06 19:57:07
- RobTaylor
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
how many users does your app have ... I am looking for to upgrade to PS as well, but need to support 150k users.
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#7 2008-01-07 05:53:02
- gmorehou
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
I would NEVER put anything mission critical on Dreamhost's network. The number of meltdowns they've had since summer 2006 is ridiculous. Their network is poorly managed.
Look into a VPS at ServInt.net. Their availability and customer service is quite good and they do NOT oversell their machines. VPSes there start at $49/mo and I'm very happy with mine. Well, except for the fact that it runs CentOS and not a decent Linux distro, but I've managed to deal with it fine so far.
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#8 2008-01-07 06:06:59
- tomkincaid
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
I use their VPS and it's pretty good. You actually adjust the capacity you need yourself and the price is based on that.
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#9 2008-01-07 09:35:00
- David Stillwell
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
I also use a dreamhost VPS and dreamhost MySQL VPS, and they've been getting the job done.
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#11 2008-01-08 02:50:59
- gmorehou
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
The servers might be good, but the network isn't. Yet more problems just today.
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#12 2008-01-08 08:18:19
- David Stillwell
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
Yeldarb, users per day is currently around 10k, was working fine over 25k though. "My Personality" is a kind of quiz app, so you have an idea from that what kind of SQL usage it has - not sure if you define it as "intensive" or not though.
Problem with the Dreamhost VPS servers is that you have to wait for a while (I waited for months, and then they only did it because my app was taking down the rest of the server) for them to set it up for you.
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#13 2008-01-08 08:22:58
- tomkincaid
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
Yeah, I requested a VPS, and it took them months too. Then they started blocking my apps because of the traffic and it was a huge mess. If they just set up the VPS when I asked, there would have been no problem.
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#14 2008-01-08 15:48:49
- randomBytez
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
I think someone already mentioned on this thread - slicehost. It took less than 5 mins (closer to 2) to setup my VPS. Just amazing. You get a barebones linux install, which than I configured using their very well written tutorial. So far quite happy. Still need to see how it will handle under load.
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#15 2008-06-17 13:17:34
Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
Does anyone have recent experience with the DreamHost private servers?
We've recently switched from a different VPS and we're finding the DreamHost one very slow in comparison.
Also, we've had several outages.
Not impressed at all so far.
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#16 2008-10-05 07:01:05
- tutunmayan
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Re: Anyone tried Dreamhost Private Server?
@David
Actualy I have a groving app and now it is out of limits of dreamhost shared hosting.
You mention that you can handle your busy app with dreamhost PS. Now I am about to switch to PS but have some questions in my mind.
Should I use DreamHost PS (web server) , (mysql) or both for my forum like application wich have monthly 70K active users? And how much memory do you think will be enough.
Thank you sooooo much for help.
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