{"id":970,"date":"2007-11-29T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T07:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/29\/dreamhost-ps\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T03:02:57","slug":"dreamhost-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/29\/dreamhost-ps\/","title":{"rendered":"DreamHost PS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site was getting way too slow, so I tried applying for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/r.cgi?240835\">DreamHost&#8217;s<\/a> new invitation-only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhostps.com\/\">Private Server<\/a> option. It finally got approved yesterday. It&#8217;s basically a virtual machine with a specific amount of CPU cycles and RAM dedicated to each user. It&#8217;s also damn expensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src='http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/29_miku.jpg' alt='Hatsune Miku' style='width:400px; height:300px;' \/><\/p>\n<p>The site does feel more responsive now. However, I&#8217;m still not entirely sure if a virtual machine is worth the premium over regular shared hosting, so I&#8217;ll monitor the situation before I decide if I want to keep the current arrangement. Do let me know if you notice any differences in speed. (Maybe it&#8217;s just my imagination.)<\/p>\n<p>My one-year contract with DreamHost is actually up and I&#8217;m paying monthly right now, so I can switch to another host if I find a better one. But I have a feeling that with the current site traffic, switching to another regular shared hosting plan with oversold bandwidth (4TB for 8 bucks?) won&#8217;t solve any problems. Shared hosting is starting to show its cracks, but I don&#8217;t think I can justify paying for a dedicated server at this stage either. Sigh. In the meantime, DreamHost is still holding up.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you are signing up for a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/r.cgi?240835\">DreamHost<\/a> account, try using the promo code <strong class=\"red\">HARUHI<\/strong> for <strong>$97<\/strong> off your first year or if you want to make payments monthly, <strong class=\"red\">YUKI<\/strong> will get rid of the <strong>$61<\/strong> set-up fee. (According to DreamHost, the maximum discount for promo codes will be capped at $50 from December 11th onwards.)<\/p>\n<p>On another note, this site will be down for maintenance at <strong>10:00PM PST (GMT -8), November 30th 2007<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site was getting way too slow, so I tried applying for DreamHost&#8217;s new invitation-only Private Server option. It finally got approved yesterday. It&#8217;s basically a virtual machine with a specific amount of CPU cycles and RAM dedicated to each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/29\/dreamhost-ps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[176,684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}