Talk:Server Statistics

Talk Among Ourselves
Nate left DreamHost in June 2006. So, unless some other DreamHost employee steps forward, it's up to us. -- UserFriendly 08:15, 24 Nov 2006 (PST)

Redundancy of list
We have 168 servers doing shared webhosting...not counting mail machines or MySQL machines...

We also occasionally replace the hardware for a machine (nothing on our shared hosting servers is tied to the hardware itself...we can configure some other piece of hardware identically in about 15 mins) so this list won't likely be very accurate for long.

It also doesn't much matter how buff or not the hardware is...it doesn't affect your individual site. If your site is heavy enough that the hardware is limitation, you've WAY outgrown shared hosting!

So I'll probably delete it or something! --Nate 18:00, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)


 * "So I'll probably delete it or something!"


 * It is basically your wiki, Nate, so that is entirely up to you. Personally, I would let the page remain because I think DreamHost customers find it interesting. As the list grows, customers (and potential customers) will see just how extensive the DreamHost server equipment is, and it will reassure them that DreamHost is obviously offering a first-class hosting solution. "My host has over 160 servers" sells better than "my host has 10 servers", so it can only be positive publicity; although, this will only come once the list is quite a bit longer.


 * Of course, anyone who knows anything about servers will realize that the processing power and memory of a particular server is not really very significant, so the processor/memory data is really just a curiosity. More important would be the bandwidth and available redundancy of the internet backbone connections, the uptime of the servers, the performance of the database servers, and the protection from things like Distributed Denial of Service attacks. -- Scjessey 05:01, 15 Jun 2005 (PDT)


 * Well, the reason I think it's a little silly is that it'll take people a while to come up with the whole list, and in the meantime, it looks like we have 10 servers. Or 20 servers. Or 50 servers!


 * Maybe I'll just generate a little list. It'll get out of date in a few weeks as we add machines and as old hardware gets replaced. --Nate 10:59, 16 Jun 2005 (PDT)


 * Maybe it isn't such a good idea after all. I didn't realize that the servers changed so much, and it would be silly to have stuff constantly out of date. -- Scjessey 09:17, 17 Jun 2005 (PDT)


 * Is it really so difficult to have your engineers update the wiki every time you add a new machine or CPU? Customers love to see this stuff, and you have to learn to service the wiki. Just leave it to us and it will be a waste of time. Put a little effort into the wiki at the corporate level and it will more than repay you. --Kingboyk 06:15, 24 Nov 2006 (PST)

Where is snicker ?
Snicker seems to be missing from the list. I only care because that's the one I log into. thanks.
 * Why don't you add it yourself? Just follow the instructions down the bottom of the page. Peppery 15:57, 30 Nov 2006 (PST)

Creating Your Own Stats Reader
Dreamhost statistics are unreliable, and sadly they are making no serious effort to provide reliable stats.

Does anyone know of a way to set up your own stats engine to analyze the raw server logs? Preferably this should be hosted on dreamhost itself. What are the good free products out there? -- User:Nadsat
 * You could try awstats Peppery 15:58, 30 Nov 2006 (PST)

Commas
Nate, if you're using a script to update this page, may I suggest updating it to put commas between the thousands? I would happily do it by hand, but if this page is kept up-to-date, it seems like that would be a waste of time. Baricom 21:09, 21 May 2006 (PDT)

Avalon
Not of any consequence, but so spooky I want to report this somewhere! My personal Linux box at home is called avalon. I signed up to Dreamhost and was put onto their server called... avalon!

Needless to say this has lead to me trying to do things like run aptitude on Dreamhost's avalon when I thought I was on mine :) --Kingboyk 06:12, 24 Nov 2006 (PST)