Preserved Topic: is dreamhost any good?

okay, i'm scared and need to get my act together...

i've been debating over 'zerominuszero.com' and 'zerominuszero.net' for some time now, but just tonight i discovered '.com' had recently been taken. that's okay, i like '.net' better anyways..

but, i was planning on using dreamhost.com for all of my domain stuff. does anyone have any experience with then? possibly are there any other recommendations?

i was looking at 9.95$ a month for 30mb space (gonna pre-pay a whole year to get that deal) and then paying them 30$ a year for the domain name... so that's 150$ for a year total, good deal?

please help, i'm lost.

cheers.mikey.milker

Well, I ran a traceroute at http://noc.visi.com/cgi-bin/traceroute-you?name=www.dreamhost.com to see how their own site loads, not too bad...

Traceroute from noc.visi.com to www.dreamhost.com:

1 fa0-1-0.core-1.mpls.visi.com (209.98.98.254) 1.107 ms 1.138 ms 2.977 ms
2 Serial12-1-1.GW3.MSP1.ALTER.NET (157.130.98.1) 2.388 ms 2.595 ms 3.028 ms
3 153.ATM3-0.XR1.CHI4.ALTER.NET (146.188.209.194) 11.443 ms 11.087 ms 15.754 ms
4 195.at-2-0-0.TR1.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.65.54) 17.165 ms 11.721 ms 16.895 ms
5 126.at-5-1-0.TR1.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.1.42) 65.940 ms 64.241 ms 69.768 ms
6 197.ATM6-0.XR1.LAX2.ALTER.NET (152.63.112.137) 66.389 ms 67.735 ms 71.319 ms
7 195.ATM8-0-0.GW1.LAX2.ALTER.NET (146.188.248.65) 69.154 ms 69.788 ms 68.487 ms
8 softaware-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.225.30) 68.013 ms 70.371 ms 81.941 ms
9 newduke.softaware.com (206.83.165.221) 58.105 ms 59.180 ms 59.979 ms
10 209.85.101.177 (209.85.101.177) 59.855 ms 60.434 ms 60.142 ms
DONE!

I'd like to see some of the other sites they host and run the same test on 'em, just to make sure they're as well connected as the www... address. The price seems right, though! For myself, I'd have to watch my total bandwidth usage allowed, I can do 40 gigs a month easy, way past most hosters limits for the basic rate. YMMV.

Your pal, -doc-<P>

OK, here's one of their hosts...

Traceroute from noc.visi.com to www.akashik.net:

1 fa0-1-0.core-1.mpls.visi.com (209.98.98.254) 43.245 ms 7.168 ms 11.743 ms
2 Serial12-1-1.GW3.MSP1.ALTER.NET (157.130.98.1) 5.316 ms 2.123 ms 15.923 ms
3 153.ATM3-0.XR2.CHI4.ALTER.NET (146.188.209.198) 15.237 ms 9.882 ms 9.991 ms
4 194.at-2-0-0.TR2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.65.70) 10.998 ms 11.648 ms 50.204 ms
5 126.at-5-1-0.TR2.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.1.134) 70.853 ms 65.125 ms 64.811 ms
6 196.ATM6-0.XR2.LAX2.ALTER.NET (152.63.112.153) 68.036 ms 68.681 ms 66.871 ms
7 194.ATM9-0-0.GW1.LAX2.ALTER.NET (146.188.248.77) 70.975 ms 86.078 ms 68.473 ms
8 softaware-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.225.30) 82.763 ms 69.481 ms 67.126 ms
9 tcg-1wil-lngstr.softaware.net (209.85.129.89) 60.458 ms 57.854 ms 63.689 ms
10 b-evil.apache.dreamhost.com (207.155.21.105) 58.644 ms 58.661 ms 58.909 ms
DONE!

VERY very good tracroute times! FWIW, they set the 'unlimited bandwidth' at 2gigs/month average, plenty for most usages, but my site would cost perhaps an extra $570/month, which seems a bit extreme. No slam on them, my site on anyones server is almost automatically considered "abuse" of the system! <g> VISI ended up just moving me to my own dedicated server, no charge - seemed the best way to keep me from slowing the rest of the network down.

Your pal, -doc-<P>

Heh heh...giving you a limit on unlimited bandwidth. It sounds like a lot of ISP's here in Australia that say...We'll give you unlimited hours per month to surf the net, and 100mb of downloads. Not telling the unsuspecting consumer that the 100mb of downloads isn't just any programs and stuff that they download, it's everything, from the pages to the images and EVERYTHING.

You can buy any car that you want, so long as it is a puce green, two door voltswageon.


Lepricosa...The Leprosy Ointment. For when your not half the man you used to be.

[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 13-06-2000).]

--doc--

thanks a lot for running a 'tracert' on their site and a hosted site for me, i never even thought of that! *dur*

well considering my page averages 500 hits a month and doesn't offer any file downloads or whatnot; so 2gigs/month for the site should work out just fine, hahaha.

there yah go, looks like i'll be buying my first domain this friday when i get my paycheck, yee-haw! it only took me 4 years of doing my own website to get around to acquiring a "real" domain, sheesh.

now i just need to finish that new design.. damn.

cheers.mikey.milker