Ask HN: What has your experience with DreamHost's DreamCompute been?

14 points by sgloutnikov 9y ago ↗ HN

For anyone that has used DreamCompute, what has you experience been? How do they compare with DigitalOcean? In terms of pricing and what is being offered, they seem to be very tempting. I'm looking for a cheap route to host a few small apps with dokku.

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freestockoption 9y ago ↗

I used it when they were beta around 1.5-2 years ago. The pricing was great back then. $50/mo for a pool of storage, cpu, and memory you could use to construct VMs of different sizes.

However, there were hiccups in the beta. Namely, the block storage kept flaking out and causing kernel panics. The downtime from that caused me to stop using it after experiencing this issue in the span of a month. Their customer support was good, though.

I hope they resolved their glitches. Because other than the flaky storage, I really liked the feature set. Their networking stack was really nice too.

jazoom 9y ago ↗

How have I never heard about this? Thanks for mentioning it.

sgloutnikov 9y ago ↗

I was surprised that there are very few reviews and experiences out there regarding DreamCompute. This post was the only meaningful thing I could find: http://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/testing-dreamcompute/

gbraad 9y ago ↗

I have had good experience. Support has answered as question in a timely fashion. I moved from Linode to Dreamhost to consolidate and lower my annual costs and so far it has done so.

I am however at the moment bound to one datacenter and this is very limiting when compared to Digital Ocean. Diskspace offered in cheap and plentiful...

I use cloudflare, so the lack of other DC locations is not a big deal (although, would be appreciated).