The latest Dreamhost newsletter announced that they’re doing away with CPU usage limits on their shared plans.
It’s about time.
This wasn’t ever an officially posted policy, as far as I can tell (the newsletter says that they never had a set threshold or an admin facility where you can monitor it), but I was seriously stressed out late last year when I started getting daily emails from them reporting that my CPU usage (primarily from VP) was too high, and I needed to either tweak my app or buy a dedicated server.
I didn’t mind the blackmail so much, since I’d been thinking about getting a dedicated box for a while (I’ve since shelved, er, racked the plan), but the funny part came around when I wrote to them for a quote. It turned out that they didn’t have any available. Their data centre was full.
Shortly after that, I stopped getting emails about CPU, and now the unofficial policy is officially dead.
I’ve been with DH since 2001, and overall they’ve been awesome. Sometimes you get a hiccup like the one above, but it was really great to see them step up and take care of the problem.
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dandelion | 04-Jun-06 at 1:50 am | Permalink
exact same sitch here. i was also getting crazy CPU minute warnings and started counting my pennies for a dedicated server but then they went and did away with CPU minutes, I’m so relieved! Dreamhost has been my first and only host (since 96!), all my friends use em so ya know i get fat benefits. :)
Jason | 04-Jun-06 at 5:54 am | Permalink
Wow, 10 years with the same internet host. In human terms, that’s like marrying your high school sweetheart, but now you’re 97 years old.
mark | 06-Jun-06 at 1:45 pm | Permalink
The day I was transferring all my stuff to another (VPS) server, I got the newsletter. Too little too late + there have been other numerous problems. But, that said, am glad they did away with the CPU thing because especially with the insane spam comment floods lately, the hit on CPU has been much larger than it is from legitimate traffic.