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#13 2006-01-25 19:39:33
- NyteOwl
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
Yes, when you oversell services to that extent something has to give. Based on a lot of the posts I’ve seen on various forums, service and reliability have been the casualties of marketing and sales.
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
> Sencer wrote:
> Be aware that it is a php script that is serving the download, so other factors may be coming into play as well.
I have tried downloading files directly as well. Same result ;-(
> NyteOwl wrote:
> Yes, when you oversell services to that extent something has to give. Based on a lot of the posts I’ve seen on various forums, service and reliability have been the casualties of marketing and sales.
Strangely enough I’ve not found much moaning about Dreamhost …
And as you can see from the posts here by other Dreamhost users, they do get 100+ KB/s – whereas I get 10-20 KB/s – not very impressive. I think 100+ KB/s is acceptable from a cheap service like Dreamhost. I chose Dreamhost to be able to test some ideas that require some bandwidth, and to see if they are as great as they claim ;-)
Last edited by raveoli (2006-01-25 21:12:25)
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
FWIW, I’m in Australia and have a bunch of sites hosted with DH.
I consistently get 200-350kps on downloads from my own sites and other DH hosted sites, but yours was chronic – 10-30kps!
I’m not suggesting that DH is a top grade host, but with over 40 sites hosted there, I’ve had very little to complain about…
Cheers
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
I’ve got a doubt about hosts such as Dream Host and Blue host …
How many concurrent users do these hosts support (i.e how many people can be simultaneously be online – without the server crashing)?
Please enlighten me.
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
> creativesplash wrote:
>How many concurrent users do these hosts support (i.e how many people can be simultaneously be online – without the server crashing)?
Dunno. And I don’t really care, so long as it performs to within my expectations for the cost… ;-)
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
There is a tool out there that will tell you the approx # of sites on a given server.
So you can see how many folks are using a server. That value should be taken with a grain of salt of course, since one high-traffic, high-CPU site can kill a server performance more than 100 low-traffic, low-CPU sites.
For those reporting the slow bandwidth. Contact Dreamhost and tell them the issue. Ask if they can move your site to a new shared host. Might improve things.
Eric
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
It doesn’t seem like server-performance (in terms of CPU) is the problem, but too many connections to the server, or too much bandwidth usage. A network card only has so much troughput, and modern servers can easily sature a mediocre connection. A theoretical example (nothing to do wtih Dreamhost): Think of unlimited bandwidth on a server with a 10 Mbps onnection and do som math, you’ll quickly figure out that the techincal limit is lower than what some shared hosting packages include in their (“limited”) bandwidth offering.
Anyway, here is an msn.search that shows you the search results (~ domains) that msn has for your IP:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=ip%3A64.111.117.254
(which doesn’t have to mean much though….)
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
You can also try http://whois.webhosting.info/64.111.117.254
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
I think I was not very clear.
I was asking about concurrent users. The number of users who are viewing your website at a given point of time. How many such users will these webhosts support. How many does textdrive support? Unlimited? 1000? 500? 100?
@sencer: Exactly, the truth is that not many webhosts support concurrent connections. That’s exactly why I asked the question about concurrent users.
Last edited by creativesplash (2006-01-26 17:51:28)
“Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.”
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
Still no reply from the Dreamho’s – I think we’re at 36+ hours now…
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Got a reply now, not a very useful one, like this:
I tested your site and evertyhing is working fine. Let us know if the problems persist. We will gladly investigate further. If so, could you please run a traceroute to your domain and provide us with the results. Check out this tutorila regarding performing this network utility http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/traceroute.html. Let us know if there is anything else that we can help you with.
Aha – wonderful response… ehem… Gonna try that traceroute tomorrow.
I then tried downloading a file from a friends site, and got 300+ KB/s – he’s on Dreamhost as well, so it’s gotta be a problem with my particular situation.
Can it be because I’ve been playing around with Ruby on Rails a few weeks ago? Some processes still running?
(I’m a Rails novice, so…)
Last edited by raveoli (2006-01-28 04:16:08)
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Re: Speed of Dreamhost
Dreamhost acknowledged there was a problem, and fixed the problem. No explanation for the slowdown was given, so sadly I can’t elaborate on what caused the slowdown. Anyway, point is it’s now fixed, which is all fine and comfy ;-)
Last edited by raveoli (2006-02-01 12:05:25)
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