So much disk space

Thursday, January 05, 2006

DreamHost just upped the disk space and bandwidth for all their plans by an insane amount. The lowest plan now offers 20GB of space, and 1TB of bandwidth, and these amounts grow every week. 20GB is two thirds the size of my computer’s hard drive! And I just moved from DH! My account with them doesn’t expire until March though. I feel tempted to continue hosting there and use it for file storage. Except I can’t imagine what to put there.

Here’s part of DreamHost’s newsletter, announcing the disk/bandwidth upgrade:

But first, other webhosts are upping their disk space.
Don’t count on DreamHost to fall behind in this foot race.

From that it seems like DH is trying to keep up with the competition. Are there really other hosts really offering this much for such a low price? And are these hosts reliable?

In December LiveJournal gave all permanent account holders 10GB of Scrapbook space. Paid account holders got 1GB. You can upload images, and supposedly videos, to the Scrapbook. A 1 year Flickr paid account, which costs about the same as a LiveJournal 1 year paid account, offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth. It all seems like so much for so little.

It might just be me. I’m still ogling the 2+ GB of space that gmail offers.

indescribable

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1. srah United States said:

on Jan 05 2006 @ 09:42 AM

My host only does 5000MB right now, but I’m still not even using half of that. What would I do with 20GB???!!!

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2. Yvonne Canada said:

on Jan 05 2006 @ 02:06 PM

I wouldn’t know what to do with it. You could even share one account with 4 people and get 5GB+ each. surprised

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3. Shannon Canada said:

on Jan 18 2006 @ 03:28 PM

I’m curious to know why you moved from DH in the beginning. I could do SO much with that amount of space (put all my daughter’s pictures online for everyone to see, since with my lil 500mb amount now I am limited as to what I put up), but since you said you moved from them, I’m curious to know before I even think about signing up.

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4. Yvonne Canada said:

on Jan 19 2006 @ 12:46 AM

The main reasons why I moved:

  • EE runs really, really slowly on DH servers, with PHP as a cgi – and 99% of my site uses EE, so that’s no good. sad Mysql access was slow too. More info here.
  • Whenever I tried to contact support, they took at least 2 days to get back to me. (On the other hand, I didn’t have to contact support all that often)
  • FTP access was slow too.

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