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DreamHost launches DreamObjects cloud storage service

56 points by tga 14y ago

McGlockenshire 14y ago
This is an interesting move for DreamHost. They built Ceph, and have been using it internally for ages now. I wonder if they're going to transform their reputation as a no-frills budget web host.
alexrbarlow 14y ago
Interesting, What would be more interesting is some stats on reliability, seen as their reputation is one of mass, cheap, hosting.
juddlyon 14y ago
Interesting to see a budget host enter this arena, but it makes sense. Pricing culled from the press release: - Usage billing: 7 cents per month - Prepaid: plans go below 5 cents to store 50 TB or more - Transfer out: 7 cents per GB
- rarrrrrr 14y ago
  Wow, glad to see this space heating up with newcomers like Nimbus.io and Ceph at about half the cost per GB. This is huge for storage consumers. Now there's S3, Rackspace, Google and MS on the "low latency" end. Then there's Amazon Glacier on the very very high latency (hours!) low cost side of the spectrum, with Nimbus.io and Dreamhost in the middle.
lsb 14y ago
DreamHost is known more for its low prices than its reliability. Look at the blurb on Inktank that starts "Inktank is the company delivering Ceph—the massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system" . Follow the link at the end to http://www.inktank.com http://www.inktank.com and the webpage just shows a default successful Apache page: "The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet" . This press release is over ten days old. I wouldn't trust them with anything serious.
- bithive123 14y ago
  That is really disappointing. We have been talking about setting up a Ceph pilot at work, but now I'm not so sure.
  - nakedrobot2 14y ago
    dreamhost has failed for us so many times in the last 5 years that I don't care to keep count. I'm guessing more than 10 major fuckups. Even things that I thought they couldn't possibly screw up, they have. We have finally moved everything away from dreamhost. I now use it only for things that can go down for days on end and nobody will care. dreamhost is definitely not to be trusted with anything more critical than that.
    - jackowayed 14y ago
      Hm. I don't trust their hosting very much (it's cheap shared hosting, never really expected to), but I've kept some domains and DNS with them and never had a problem. I've thought about moving, but keep staying because there's no compelling reason to change. Care to give me compelling reasons to change?
      - seandougall 14y ago
        Honestly, there probably isn't a really compelling reason to switch, if you've been able to survive through DNS caching. Dreamhost's customer service is good, and their problems mostly stem from the fact that they do the exact same thing every other budget shared hosting platform does: oversell like crazy, cross their fingers, and hope that their users don't actually use all the storage and bandwidth they've been promised. The only difference I can see is that Dreamhost is probably the most popular such service, so that strategy bites them in the ass more often than others. For me, though, having relied on more than just registration and DNS through Dreamhost and gotten screwed too many times, moving to Webfaction made a world of difference. Their shared plan isn't as solid as dedicated hosting would be, but at least I can say I get what I pay for. With Dreamhost, that much wasn't true.
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bkanber 14y ago
I had several clients on DreamHost and all of them have had some kind of problem, whether it's unacceptable downtime or MySQL DBs crashing and not being restored for 3+ days. I've spent a lot of time and effort moving clients off of DreamHost, so I don't know how I feel about this.

56 points by tga 14y ago

This is an interesting move for DreamHost. They built Ceph, and have been using it internally for ages now. I wonder if they're going to transform their reputation as a no-frills budget web host.

alexrbarlow 14y ago

Interesting, What would be more interesting is some stats on reliability, seen as their reputation is one of mass, cheap, hosting.

juddlyon 14y ago

Interesting to see a budget host enter this arena, but it makes sense. Pricing culled from the press release: - Usage billing: 7 cents per month - Prepaid: plans go below 5 cents to store 50 TB or more - Transfer out: 7 cents per GB

rarrrrrr 14y ago
Wow, glad to see this space heating up with newcomers like Nimbus.io and Ceph at about half the cost per GB. This is huge for storage consumers. Now there's S3, Rackspace, Google and MS on the "low latency" end. Then there's Amazon Glacier on the very very high latency (hours!) low cost side of the spectrum, with Nimbus.io and Dreamhost in the middle.

lsb 14y ago

DreamHost is known more for its low prices than its reliability. Look at the blurb on Inktank that starts "Inktank is the company delivering Ceph—the massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system" . Follow the link at the end to http://www.inktank.com http://www.inktank.com and the webpage just shows a default successful Apache page: "The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet" . This press release is over ten days old. I wouldn't trust them with anything serious.

bithive123 14y ago
That is really disappointing. We have been talking about setting up a Ceph pilot at work, but now I'm not so sure.
- nakedrobot2 14y ago
  dreamhost has failed for us so many times in the last 5 years that I don't care to keep count. I'm guessing more than 10 major fuckups. Even things that I thought they couldn't possibly screw up, they have. We have finally moved everything away from dreamhost. I now use it only for things that can go down for days on end and nobody will care. dreamhost is definitely not to be trusted with anything more critical than that.
  - jackowayed 14y ago
    Hm. I don't trust their hosting very much (it's cheap shared hosting, never really expected to), but I've kept some domains and DNS with them and never had a problem. I've thought about moving, but keep staying because there's no compelling reason to change. Care to give me compelling reasons to change?
    - seandougall 14y ago
      Honestly, there probably isn't a really compelling reason to switch, if you've been able to survive through DNS caching. Dreamhost's customer service is good, and their problems mostly stem from the fact that they do the exact same thing every other budget shared hosting platform does: oversell like crazy, cross their fingers, and hope that their users don't actually use all the storage and bandwidth they've been promised. The only difference I can see is that Dreamhost is probably the most popular such service, so that strategy bites them in the ass more often than others. For me, though, having relied on more than just registration and DNS through Dreamhost and gotten screwed too many times, moving to Webfaction made a world of difference. Their shared plan isn't as solid as dedicated hosting would be, but at least I can say I get what I pay for. With Dreamhost, that much wasn't true.
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bkanber 14y ago

I had several clients on DreamHost and all of them have had some kind of problem, whether it's unacceptable downtime or MySQL DBs crashing and not being restored for 3+ days. I've spent a lot of time and effort moving clients off of DreamHost, so I don't know how I feel about this.