{"id":219,"date":"2006-08-15T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T23:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/dreamhost-not-so-dreamy\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T23:08:22","slug":"dreamhost-not-so-dreamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/dreamhost-not-so-dreamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamhost not so dreamy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if Dreamhost’s well-publicized problems<\/a> during the last three weeks of July weren’t enough to frustrate a shared web hosting customer such as myself, with a single humble domain hosting a couple of lightly-used blogs and a photo gallery, lately my shared hosting server, happy.dreamhost.com, has been sluggish at best, and frequently just dead to the world. I’ll share a few statistics that are probably interesting to no one but me, and maybe the few other people who read or use the web services on auroralux.net: <\/p>\n

Longest uptime I can remember for Happy in the last several days: 14 hours
\nHighest load average I’ve seen in the last 24 hours: 650
\nNumber of support emails sent to Dreamhost: 5
\nNumber of responses: 3
\nNumber of responses with helpful information on my problem: 1<\/p>\n

It’s a very interesting time for me to have these problems with my web hosting provider, since I’m just under three weeks shy of my annual renewal date. I figure it’ll take a good 48 hours for domain name services to propogate, and I’ll probably double that for good measure, so I at least know I have several more days before I really have to decide whether to renew with them. The biggest advantage I have is my hosting needs are fairly lightweight, so I could host this site pretty much anywhere. <\/p>\n

I’ve been researching web hosting in general and some specific ones that seem well-regarded, and now question Dreamhost’s policy of providing a very cheap shared web hosting solution with high disk space and bandwidth limits. The bottleneck isn’t the bandwidth or disk in this case it’s the CPU. <\/p>\n

Say for example the front page of my blog consists of 21 kilobytes of data, a conservative estimate. In order to use up my current bandwidth limit of 1317 gigabytes per month, I’d have to have 62,717,272 page views on my blog per month. Looks great! I doubt I’ll ever receive that many page views unless I have the misfortune to be slashdotted. I’d need 24 page views per second on my home page to use up the available bandwidth on my website. Wow!<\/p>\n

Dreamhost is very vague<\/a> about CPU resource utilization on their shared hosts, and I don’t know how many other customers I share happy.dreamhost.com with, but I’m confident that if my website were serving 24 page views per second, I would be adversely affecting the performance of the shared server, so the high bandwidth limit LOOKS like a great deal, but the type of website I host is unlikely to ever be able to use it without grinding the poor shared server to a halt, a scenario that looks suspiciously like what’s happening right now on happy! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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