Comments on: DreamHost http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-19642 Sean P Aune Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:49:30 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/#comment-19642 Luis - I tend to ignore them because they are usually people who come on here to do nothing but argue with me. Last time was a couple of months ago about DRM of all things. How anyone can defend DRM is beyond me, but it turned in to an all night comment war, and since, I tend to distrust Anons as nothing more than trolls. You... I'll just smack upside the head :-p Luis – I tend to ignore them because they are usually people who come on here to do nothing but argue with me. Last time was a couple of months ago about DRM of all things. How anyone can defend DRM is beyond me, but it turned in to an all night comment war, and since, I tend to distrust Anons as nothing more than trolls.

You… I’ll just smack upside the head :-p

]]> By: Luis http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-19641 Luis Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:46:21 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/#comment-19641 "Anonymous" is me. I didn't not sign it, instead somehow my computer lost the cookie for this site, or it lapsed, or something. Since the computer usually fills it in for me automatically, I didn't even think about it, and did not notice that it was anonymous. Why would you ignore anonymous postings, anyway? Michael: no, I haven't heard of centralized storage; please explain. “Anonymous” is me. I didn’t not sign it, instead somehow my computer lost the cookie for this site, or it lapsed, or something. Since the computer usually fills it in for me automatically, I didn’t even think about it, and did not notice that it was anonymous.

Why would you ignore anonymous postings, anyway?

Michael: no, I haven’t heard of centralized storage; please explain.

]]> By: Michael http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-19640 Michael Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:21:29 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/#comment-19640 Anonymous has never heard of centralized storage. Just because he hasn't figured out how to do it, doesn't mean it is even relatively difficult. Anonymous has never heard of centralized storage. Just because he hasn’t figured out how to do it, doesn’t mean it is even relatively difficult.

]]> By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-19637 Sean P Aune Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:48:51 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/#comment-19637 ... I love people who don't sign comments. Yes, I am fully aware they don't expect me to use the entire thing, but thus far, I am quite happy with them. Not signing a comment, even with a fake name, just makes me generally ignore you though. … I love people who don’t sign comments. Yes, I am fully aware they don’t expect me to use the entire thing, but thus far, I am quite happy with them.

Not signing a comment, even with a fake name, just makes me generally ignore you though.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-19636 Anonymous Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:57:55 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/08/01/dreamhost/#comment-19636 Generally speaking, web hosts offer far more than they can deliver, hoping that people will be attracted by the higher numbers, but will not actually <em>use</em> the increased disk space and bandwidth. Those who do take advantage of the full offer are often sent to backwater servers, where they share low-speed connections with other people who actually take the host up on their offer--or, often times, they are discarded by the web host entirely on the basis of some or another infraction. Realistically, no web host can truly offer that much to even a small percentage of their clients, unless the clients are paying in the hundreds of dollars per month. You would appear to have the $16/mo. deal... but when youn think about it, the amounts you mention would require from three to six clients per server. No way they're doing that. Usually at that price range, they put 25-50 clients on a single server, so you can guess what would happen if even a small percentage used the total amounts offered. Generally speaking, web hosts offer far more than they can deliver, hoping that people will be attracted by the higher numbers, but will not actually use the increased disk space and bandwidth. Those who do take advantage of the full offer are often sent to backwater servers, where they share low-speed connections with other people who actually take the host up on their offer–or, often times, they are discarded by the web host entirely on the basis of some or another infraction.

Realistically, no web host can truly offer that much to even a small percentage of their clients, unless the clients are paying in the hundreds of dollars per month. You would appear to have the $16/mo. deal… but when youn think about it, the amounts you mention would require from three to six clients per server. No way they’re doing that. Usually at that price range, they put 25-50 clients on a single server, so you can guess what would happen if even a small percentage used the total amounts offered.

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