95% off Dreamhost 2 Year Account

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Dreamhost 95% off 2 year hosting.

$214.80 package for $10.74

Sign up for a new account.

Goto >> Host a Domain

Select the 2 year option

Use promo code 202

Valid till 3rd Jan only.


Happy New Year to All!
 


Seems like a lot of people are taking advantage of this, because I can't even get the signup page because the server is so busy. Makes me wonder about the quality of hosting, but I guess having another IP for 2 years for $10.74 sounds pretty much worth it.

I think this offer was shared on Lifehacker and Fatwallet, so they must be getting a fair bit of traffic from people biting.


zylotron said:
Dreamhost 95% off 2 year hosting.

$214.80 package for $10.74

Sign up for a new account.

Goto >> Host a Domain

Select the 2 year option

Use promo code 202

Valid till 3rd Jan only.


Happy New Year to All!
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Nothing but bad experiences with dreamhost in the past but I signed up this morning simply because it was basically free.
 
My thoughts exactly. It's probably perfect for autoblogs, etc.

-Matt- said:
Nothing but bad experiences with dreamhost in the past but I signed up this morning simply because it was basically free.
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I've never used DreamHost, but keep in mind that most hosts use special servers for promotions like this. Sometimes the server has lower specs than the normal shared servers or sometimes they just overload them like crazy. Again though, I don't know anyone at DreamHost, but I do know the owners of quite a few hosts that use special servers. But for $10 I guess you can figure out pretty fast if the server is good.

EDIT: Their site is dead. lol
 
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Just keep reloading the page it will eventually show up. I did it. Hosting is more then likely not worth a shit, but what the hell right
 
Seems to be still working with 202 promo code, but price is now $21.48 for 2 years

Total: $214.80 2 years of hosting
includes one domain registration
(includes 18% discount)
- $193.32 202 promo
Due Now: $21.48 make changes?
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Yep it's up now and $21.48 for 2 years. What's up with the proprietary control panel? It blows.
 
yea my bad, i just saw the front page where they had the 70% promotion. I just signed up with code 202 and got the same deal ($21.48), which is still lower than the initial, but great nonetheless.

Splogs here I come!!!
 
So basically it's twice the price it was this morning, or $10.74 a year.
 
I messaged them about my site being down today (keep in mind only one of my domain gets like 200-300 unique hits a day, the rest barely hit 20 to 30).

Hello,

Your sites are experiencing down-time because your sites are using to
many resources. Basically, because you are on a shared-
hosting server, you don't have any resources allocated to you! Therefore,
whenever your sites use to many resources our process
watcher will kill it. Using a ton of resources can happen for a lot of
different reasons. Usually, this happens when you have to many people on
your sites doing to much stuff or when your scripts are constantly on or
very resource intensive.

Here is a except from our process watcher:
2009-01-03 03:53:43 procwatch2 INFO: Process(pid=1583, name='php.cgi',
uid=kblessing(2281054), tty=None, cpu=2.2, rss=27328.0, vsize=77136.0):
kill for total RAM (27328.00 self, 161224.00 total exceeds limit)

The easiest remedy to this is to get a private server. If you are driving
this much traffic then I think that this may be necessary. A private
server will allow you to have dedicated resources for your account.

If a PS isn't an option, then I'd recommend reading this wiki:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Finding_Causes_of_Heavy_Usage

This helpful wiki article will explain how to find scripts that are
causing heavy usage on your sites. You will need a fair amount of
knowledge with UNIX shell in order to understand the above article.

It is also important to know that while you may be experiencing issues
with one of your sites that doesn't mean that it is the
cause. For example, let's say that you have two sites (site A and site
B). If site A is using a ton of resources and then site B
uses just enough to push you over the limit then site B goes down, NOT
site A.

If you need anything else or have any more questions please don't
hesitate to drop me a line! My email address is danielg@dreamhost.com
--please use this address to contact me for any further assistance that
you may require.
Daniel G ^_^
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Now in the past I wasn't normally confused for an idiot. But if that's the excuse they want to go after, then I'm going to have to assume that is why even their own domain dreamhost.com was down for a period of time. Should note, its also the first time I ever got a support email back from them that sounded like someone from india in the 2 years I've used them.
 
HustlinHard said:
does the domain they give you come with private whois? If not how do I get it/how much do they charge?
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They do, and registration if you register thru them includes private registration (registration is 9.95/year). However I generally refrain from registering domains with the same company you host with, always found it a good policy to keep the two separate.

I originally signed up because they were offering the first year free, then it was 119$ per year after that.
 
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