DreamHost launches DreamObjects cloud storage service

http://dreamhost.com/press-releases/dreamhost-introduces-dreamobjects-cloud-storage-service/

by tga • 14 years ago

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McGlockenshire• 14 years ago

This is an interesting move for DreamHost. They built Ceph, and have been using it internally for ages now.

I wonder if they're going to transform their reputation as a no-frills budget web host.

alexrbarlow• 14 years ago

Interesting, What would be more interesting is some stats on reliability, seen as their reputation is one of mass, cheap, hosting.

juddlyon• 14 years ago

Interesting to see a budget host enter this arena, but it makes sense.

Pricing culled from the press release:

- Usage billing: 7 cents per month

- Prepaid: plans go below 5 cents to store 50 TB or more

- Transfer out: 7 cents per GB

rarrrrrr• 14 years ago

Wow, glad to see this space heating up with newcomers like Nimbus.io and Ceph at about half the cost per GB. This is huge for storage consumers.

Now there's S3, Rackspace, Google and MS on the "low latency" end. Then there's Amazon Glacier on the very very high latency (hours!) low cost side of the spectrum, with Nimbus.io and Dreamhost in the middle.

lsb• 14 years ago

DreamHost is known more for its low prices than its reliability.

Look at the blurb on Inktank that starts "Inktank is the company delivering Ceph—the massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system" . Follow the link at the end to http://www.inktank.com and the webpage just shows a default successful Apache page: "The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet" .

This press release is over ten days old.

I wouldn't trust them with anything serious.

bithive123• 14 years ago

That is really disappointing. We have been talking about setting up a Ceph pilot at work, but now I'm not so sure.

nakedrobot2• 14 years ago

dreamhost has failed for us so many times in the last 5 years that I don't care to keep count. I'm guessing more than 10 major fuckups. Even things that I thought they couldn't possibly screw up, they have. We have finally moved everything away from dreamhost. I now use it only for things that can go down for days on end and nobody will care. dreamhost is definitely not to be trusted with anything more critical than that.

themgt• 14 years ago

We've been using Ceph and the S3-compatible radosgw at a small scale while building http://www.pogoapp.com and I have no real complaints. It's a very new technology and even things like running a cluster backup aren't yet possible, but Dreamhost has been providing its customers a free beta for a while now, the program is under heavy development, has Dreamhost and Shuttleworth providing funding, and the devs on IRC are quite helpful and responsive. And it's being integrated into OpenStack

It looks like Ceph is still waiting on stable btrfs to truly shine (http://ceph.com/docs/master/rec/filesystem/), but overall the technology looks very promising and works well today, with a small number of groups running large multi-rack storage clusters (e.g. I believe it runs DreamHost's entire backup system)

nl• 14 years ago

Not sure if you are trying to criticize Dreamhost, Ceph or Inktank.

I couldn't find a link that didn't work, but even if there was one I'm not sure that a marketing website says much about an underlaying storage platform.

bkanber• 14 years ago

I had several clients on DreamHost and all of them have had some kind of problem, whether it's unacceptable downtime or MySQL DBs crashing and not being restored for 3+ days. I've spent a lot of time and effort moving clients off of DreamHost, so I don't know how I feel about this.

DreamHost launches DreamObjects cloud storage service

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