Comments on: Amazon S3 vs DreamHost

By: Dreamhost backup plans

Dreamhost backup plans — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:27:21 +0000

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By: Bob Mitchell

Bob Mitchell — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:36:19 +0000

Gosh, this is a very old thread, but I wonder is S3 is *still* best or if there are any other solutions?

Option research time!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:45:14 +0000

The details of my experience with Dreamhost vs S3 are detailed here:
http://macrolinz.com/macrolinz/index.php/2008/04/25/dreamhosts-500gb-hosting-really-is-a-dream/

Long story short, you can’t actually use the 500+GB at Dreamhost so Amazon S3 is the winner.

As for using S3Drive for Subversion on S3, it won’t work. It doesn’t cache the files locally which is something Subversion needs to work. JungleDisk does cache and you can set up a repository that works, but it’s not free and you can’t access the data in your buckets without it (so if the tool goes away you’ll have a tough time). I’m looking into other options myself.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:45:32 +0000

Dreamhost has a policy that disallows the use of a backup on their server. Also, as mentioned by others, they will cut you off when you’ve used more resources than the invisible limit set by them which is way less than the amount advertised.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:26:13 +0000

You can do encrypted, incremental backups to S3 from linux with duplicity.

http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/

By: Pinco Pallo

Pinco Pallo — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:43:44 +0000

Dreamhost sucks.
They closed my account because I used it to store my personal data as backup…

By: Offsite

Offsite — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:13:45 +0000

Dreamhost has about 97% availability.

By: Television Archiving » Blog Archive » links for 2008-01-03

Television Archiving » Blog Archive » links for 2008-01-03 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:18:48 +0000

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By: LOL

LOL — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:35:26 +0000

Have you even ever used dreamhost?

Try using all the disk space
or bandwidth and *poof* your account is suspended.

By: Value CDN

Value CDN — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:01:08 +0000

Have you checked out Value CDN or Panther pricing? They also offer very competitive rates at much lower cost than S3.