No, they they're careful to say unlimited bandwith (and storage and such), but not unlimited traffic. When I was looking around dreamhost docs/FAQs/something either right before or right after signing up, it did say somewhere that they might ask you to move up to their VPS if you're using too much CPU, which could happen just from a whole bunch of static hits.
It's nice for your hosting all of your little sites and getting them up in basically 0 time, even if you need wordpress or something. The panel's pretty nice. I'd at least sign up when they have one of their crazy deals (I got a year of hosting with a free domain for $9.something, which basically means you pay for the domain and get the hosting for free. It's a good way to give them a try with the main cost being that they'll suck you in and get you paying $9/month after your cheap price expires.)
I was told in a friendly conversation with one of their service reps that shared accounts get roughly 200-250MB of total memory usage (Ruby on Rails bumped me over, for example) and a "certain amount" of 95%ile bandwidth averaged over some time. I have a feeling they sort their customer list based on these two values every once and a while and send the top X accounts a message.
The terms and conditions pages for shared hosting sites usually outline that bandwidth, disk space, number of sites, and number of databases are unlimited, but CPU and memory are not. There's your bottleneck. You can put thousands of sites on shared hosting, but get one or two with decent traffic or heavy scripts and you get the upsell or leave email. That's why I host at Rackspace Cloud now.
I actually don't mind Dreamhost for very targeted uses.
I jumped on a deal at the beginning of this year for ~$9 for 1 year of shared hosting. I now use that account purely for running things like scripts through SSH for doing basic data grabs with wget for further analysis elsewhere.
I've more than got my money's worth and I've yet to see any kind of email message asking me to upgrade.
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Dreamhost? Their main advertising point is UNLIMITED TRAFFIC!!! I guess I'll scratch them off the list of potential hosts.
No, they they're careful to say unlimited bandwith (and storage and such), but not unlimited traffic. When I was looking around dreamhost docs/FAQs/something either right before or right after signing up, it did say somewhere that they might ask you to move up to their VPS if you're using too much CPU, which could happen just from a whole bunch of static hits.
It's nice for your hosting all of your little sites and getting them up in basically 0 time, even if you need wordpress or something. The panel's pretty nice. I'd at least sign up when they have one of their crazy deals (I got a year of hosting with a free domain for $9.something, which basically means you pay for the domain and get the hosting for free. It's a good way to give them a try with the main cost being that they'll suck you in and get you paying $9/month after your cheap price expires.)
I was told in a friendly conversation with one of their service reps that shared accounts get roughly 200-250MB of total memory usage (Ruby on Rails bumped me over, for example) and a "certain amount" of 95%ile bandwidth averaged over some time. I have a feeling they sort their customer list based on these two values every once and a while and send the top X accounts a message.
Nothing is unlimited. It's just sales tactics.
The terms and conditions pages for shared hosting sites usually outline that bandwidth, disk space, number of sites, and number of databases are unlimited, but CPU and memory are not. There's your bottleneck. You can put thousands of sites on shared hosting, but get one or two with decent traffic or heavy scripts and you get the upsell or leave email. That's why I host at Rackspace Cloud now.
I actually don't mind Dreamhost for very targeted uses.
I jumped on a deal at the beginning of this year for ~$9 for 1 year of shared hosting. I now use that account purely for running things like scripts through SSH for doing basic data grabs with wget for further analysis elsewhere.
I've more than got my money's worth and I've yet to see any kind of email message asking me to upgrade.