Comments on: DreamHost Now Offers Personal Backup Space http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space Web Hosting Blog by a Software Developer Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anonymous http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space/comment-page-1#comment-945 Anonymous Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:03:36 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=170#comment-945 <p>Just a quick comment - it's weird, as rsync has <em>always</em> been supported, even for their normal accounts. I've been using DH's normal folder for backups since forever with rsync.</p> <p>I'm now moving to the proper backup server and I'm glad rsync is "officially" supported anyway. I'm syncing now and it's going great.</p> Just a quick comment – it’s weird, as rsync has always been supported, even for their normal accounts. I’ve been using DH’s normal folder for backups since forever with rsync.

I’m now moving to the proper backup server and I’m glad rsync is “officially” supported anyway. I’m syncing now and it’s going great.

]]> By: Web Content Writer http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space/comment-page-1#comment-944 Web Content Writer Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:48:27 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=170#comment-944 <p>Thanks for sharing drawbacks of DreamHost services!</p> Thanks for sharing drawbacks of DreamHost services!

]]> By: scotty http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space/comment-page-#comment-942 scotty Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:47:25 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=170#comment-942 <p>Done! Thanks for notifying me about this. Seeing the credit is only <strong>1</strong>, even DreamHost reckons this is an easy task...</p> Done! Thanks for notifying me about this. Seeing the credit is only 1, even DreamHost reckons this is an easy task…

]]> By: Anonymous http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space/comment-page-1#comment-943 Anonymous Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:13:45 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=170#comment-943 <p>There is an active suggestion at the Dreamhost Control Panel to allow rsync. Go an vote for it if you're already on Dreamhost.</p> There is an active suggestion at the Dreamhost Control Panel to allow rsync. Go an vote for it if you’re already on Dreamhost.

]]> By: Teddy K http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space/comment-page-1#comment-941 Teddy K Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:08:22 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=170#comment-941 <p>Anyone recommend a comparable alternative to Cachefly (CDN)?</p> Anyone recommend a comparable alternative to Cachefly (CDN)?

]]> By: scotty http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space/comment-page-#comment-939 scotty Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:35:59 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=170#comment-939 <p>Thanks for the info!</p> <p>Yup I know that they use Solaris for filers but I was just worrying whether they are using the same grade of hardware for their main filters as well as they backup volumes. If it's all based on the same architecture but just having the snapshot turn off, then I guess my question is answered...</p> Thanks for the info!

Yup I know that they use Solaris for filers but I was just worrying whether they are using the same grade of hardware for their main filters as well as they backup volumes. If it’s all based on the same architecture but just having the snapshot turn off, then I guess my question is answered…

]]> By: Francis http://hostingfu.com/article/dreamhost-now-offers-personal-backup-space/comment-page-1#comment-940 Francis Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:37:46 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=170#comment-940 <p>Dreamhost has been my host for about 4 years now. I won't recommend them for shared hosting because their servers are slow (mostly the mysql servers) and they tend to have network problems from time to time. But I can enlighten you to how their systems work.</p> <p>They use sun filers (not sure which one) for their normal web clusters. These run ZFS and are raidZ'd and do weekly scrubs for data integrity. As a customer I can tell you that a lot of people have requested rsync support for the backup accounts (which would be done easiest by adding shell support) and dreamhost has responded that it would not be that hard to do. Currently if you try to ssh in it only hangings waiting for an sftp connection.</p> <p>For normal accounts you have a hidden .snapshots directory (in every directory) that has two hourly snapshots, two daily snapshots and a weekly one. It looks to me like they just disabled the snapshots of the backup accounts.</p> Dreamhost has been my host for about 4 years now. I won’t recommend them for shared hosting because their servers are slow (mostly the mysql servers) and they tend to have network problems from time to time. But I can enlighten you to how their systems work.

They use sun filers (not sure which one) for their normal web clusters. These run ZFS and are raidZ’d and do weekly scrubs for data integrity. As a customer I can tell you that a lot of people have requested rsync support for the backup accounts (which would be done easiest by adding shell support) and dreamhost has responded that it would not be that hard to do. Currently if you try to ssh in it only hangings waiting for an sftp connection.

For normal accounts you have a hidden .snapshots directory (in every directory) that has two hourly snapshots, two daily snapshots and a weekly one. It looks to me like they just disabled the snapshots of the backup accounts.

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