These guys actualy talked about that sort of thing. they said that they would loose money if a customer used up their full terabyte, but that because the vast majority of their customers use far less bandwidth they still honor their word even to the few that do.
heres the quote:
Imagine we didn't "oversell" at all. We still offer 20GB of disk space and 1TB of bandwidth on our $7.95/month plan because that's what the competition has forced us to offer. 1TB of bandwidth is about an average of 3Mbs. 3Mbs for a month costs us about $90/month. The 20GB of disk space actually costs us about $200 (BELIEVE IT OR NOT!), because of the level of availability and backups we provide. So, we'd be losing about $200 up front and $82 / month on each and every customer!
And, all in the name of not "overselling", our disk arrays would sit 98% empty and our network pipes 1% full!
It's worth it!
What if you went to get a gym membership and they were like "We have a state-of-the-art facility with an elliptical machine, complete set of free weights, stairmaster, treadmill, yoga class, kickboxing, rock-climbing wall, and olympic sized pool.. per member! You'll never have to wait to use anything, anytime, seven days a week, 24 hours a day! Membership fees are $45,000/month with a $300,000 set up fee."?
It's the same thing.
But our "overselling" is even better then a gym's. At a gym, sometimes you're going to have to wait to use a machine. A machine you are PAYING hefty membership fees to use! That's not right.
But with us, you really CAN use all the stuff we're offering. You won't be disabled for it. You won't have to wait. Your performance won't suffer. It's just a good thing for us there's a difference between being able to use something and actually using it!
I have a 4 terabyte limit on my server, but I havn't ever exceded 2. I think theres only been two months where I broke 1 terabyte...
but I've never heard a single other DH customer complain about being disabled for bandwidth. (they have forums that I browse occasionaly)
It's dedicated, I upgraded from shared. I dont think they give out root for shared accounts. I'm not so sure I'd want that either...
I was only on the shared server for a couple months before I decided I needed more power (They don't have a specific limit on cpu minutes, but some of my stuff was hitting the box prety hard.)
Like I said though, they've always taken good care of me.
not to be spamy or anything, but I've compiled stuff on my dreamhost box before. They even gave me a sudo password when I asked politely. (In all fairness, I do have a dedicated server, and that might make a dfference.)
And I've been with em long enough to have a good number of concerns (mostly my fault) and they were always very responsive. (And always helped me fix it.)
Would someone with more knowledge than me explain the term "zero day"?
Zero day basicaly means that nobody even knew the vulnerability existed before it turned up and started causing trouble.
In contrast, sometimes a "proof of concept" exploit is first released that does no damage and instead gives the vendor a chance to fix the vulnerability.
60 gigs is what did it for me. There aren't to many players out there that have 60 gigs of storage on them. The click wheel is nice too, although not a dealbreaker in and of itself.
Novell puts out a monthly (free) magazine called Novell Connection. I just got the latest issue a few days ago and I do remember noticing a Dell / Linux Advertisement on the back cover.
So, they 'proved' that the earth has been this warm before, and now they are claiming that as evidence that its our fault this time? Doesnt seem to add up to me...
I'd have to reccomend ibm's (lenovo's) x41 tablet. I got one a few months ago and I love it. It's very small and decently powerful. It gives me 2-3 hours on the small battery, the larger battery runs for 4-5 hours easily.
The tablet part is rarely used beyond showing off, I need my keyboard.
The down side is its kind of expensive, and lacks a cd rom. but it comes with some virtual cd sotware that sort of makes up for the cd rom.
Slashdot Mirror
I know theres a beowulf joke in here somewhere...
"Visual Radio"
Don't they normaly call that TV?
IANAL, but I'm curious, could this be considered monopolistic practice?
These guys actualy talked about that sort of thing. they said that they would loose money if a customer used up their full terabyte, but that because the vast majority of their customers use far less bandwidth they still honor their word even to the few that do.
heres the quote: source: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-abI have a 4 terabyte limit on my server, but I havn't ever exceded 2. I think theres only been two months where I broke 1 terabyte...
but I've never heard a single other DH customer complain about being disabled for bandwidth. (they have forums that I browse occasionaly)
It's dedicated, I upgraded from shared. I dont think they give out root for shared accounts. I'm not so sure I'd want that either...
I was only on the shared server for a couple months before I decided I needed more power (They don't have a specific limit on cpu minutes, but some of my stuff was hitting the box prety hard.)
Like I said though, they've always taken good care of me.
not to be spamy or anything, but I've compiled stuff on my dreamhost box before. They even gave me a sudo password when I asked politely. (In all fairness, I do have a dedicated server, and that might make a dfference.)
;)
And I've been with em long enough to have a good number of concerns (mostly my fault) and they were always very responsive. (And always helped me fix it.)
If you're interested, http://dreamhost.com/ or http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?95192 if you feel like being nice to me
> when was the last time you saw XML being thrown over xmlhttprequest, as opposed to plain HTML/CSS?
last week at work; I'm on vacation this week. =)
they just hung up on me. wasnt very funny at all.
In contrast, sometimes a "proof of concept" exploit is first released that does no damage and instead gives the vendor a chance to fix the vulnerability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_day
and I thought that insecure folks wern't the flirty type...
The phrase "More dollars than sense" comes to mind...
Underprice? I know of bands that will preform for $250 total!
a) God made the Swiss, who says he can't make watches?
b) it's 'God' not 'god'. have some respect.
I grabbed a copy of the Brian Peppers article just after the index.php disapeared and rehosted it at
http://brickballs.net/censored/wikitruth_brian_pep pers.htm
but, i didnt have the others.. the good news is that mirrordot got everything:
Gregory Rider ? writes "According to a recent article in The Guardian, a group of disenchanted Wikipedia administrators ? has been going through back channels on Wikipedia and retrieving articles deleted by Jimbo Wales or other higher-ups ? . Now they're putting them back up on a website for everyone to see. This includes articles on Justin Berry ? , Paul Barresi ? , and, most strangely, Brian Peppers ? , which has been solicited for deletion off of Wikipedia 6 times
60 gigs is what did it for me. There aren't to many players out there that have 60 gigs of storage on them.
The click wheel is nice too, although not a dealbreaker in and of itself.
its not so much that the laptops help with learning.. they just tend to make class more fun.
Novell puts out a monthly (free) magazine called Novell Connection. I just got the latest issue a few days ago and I do remember noticing a Dell / Linux Advertisement on the back cover.
This is great - now when old people up there to buy perscription drugs, they can make up for the trouble by selling cheep blank cd's! its perfect!
Apple. Crash different.
and while, yes, opera is absolutely awesome, I can imagine firefox running on a gameboy ds.
mirror of those screenshots for if (when) imageshack dies.
http://brickballs.net/img/kde4-1.png
http://brickballs.net/img/kde4-2.png
I'd mirror the others but they were already hosed when I got to em.
So, they 'proved' that the earth has been this warm before, and now they are claiming that as evidence that its our fault this time? Doesnt seem to add up to me...
Mirror: http://mirrordot.org/stories/ba3df8895f34d0ddecd77 28b1be0320b/index.html
I'd have to reccomend ibm's (lenovo's) x41 tablet. I got one a few months ago and I love it. It's very small and decently powerful. It gives me 2-3 hours on the small battery, the larger battery runs for 4-5 hours easily.
The tablet part is rarely used beyond showing off, I need my keyboard.
The down side is its kind of expensive, and lacks a cd rom. but it comes with some virtual cd sotware that sort of makes up for the cd rom.
I certainly hope so. I find printed form far easier on the eyes for anything over a few pages.