Monty Icenogle (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kd6cae) wrote,@ 2008-04-09 01:53:00 |
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Odyssey collection ripped, and a rant about Web hosting Provider Dreamhost
Some of you may know I have enjoyed the Christian Radio drama series Adventures in Odyssey for over 15 years now. For some time, I've had fairly low quality rips of much of the Odyssey episodes. However, recently that's all changed, as I've recently aquired a decent collection of Odyssey Albums on CD, and as a result, I've spent the last couple of weeks off and on, ripping and tagging these episodes.
I just minutes ago finished tagging the last disc I have in my current collection of Adventures in Odyssey Material, all at nice 320k mp3, compatible with any major mp3 player out there on the Market today.
I have virtually every episode from number 250 or so onward continuously, which equates to having roughly the last 15 years or so of the Program! I still have small gaps, which I hope to fill in over time, but this collection is so valuable to me, especially considering the work I put in to tagging and ripping all of these shows, that I'm going to do my best to back up the material in as many places as I can. Considering the collection's current size is 25GB, that's not going to be Easy to do, especially when one WebHosting provider offers tons of space to it's customers, but then disables accounts if a User wishes to actually use the space he payed for. Which Web Hosting Provider am I refering to you ask? That'd be none other than Dream Host, which until Yesterday I'd been very satisfied with.
DreamHost offered me when I signed up 250GB of disk space, and a couple friends of mine, when they signed up for their DreamHost accounts, got plans of 500 gigs and even 1000 gigs of disk space. Now to be Fair, it does state that the space isn't to be used for Archiving data, however, I would think, even a web site with say a Video Podcast that's shot in HD would be maybe 20-25 gigabytes, and that's assuming several episodes, each around a gig or two, are posted to the site. The point I'm trying to make is that no web site I know of will come close to even using 10 percent of the space that Each customer is supposedly allotted. So naturally, what exactly is wrong with using some of your allowed space, for your own personal off site remote backup storage, especially when you're given so much space to work with?
Why does it matter whether the files you put on your account are part of a web site or not? It's still using disk space whether you put up files that are suppose to be part of a web site or you put up files outside your web directories, in order to back them up.
A friend of mine got a DreamHost account, at my recommendation mind you, for the purpose of putting up a small web page for his weekly countdown show, as well as for being able to do off site backups of rather large CD Image files, as well as other files which he wanted to have a remote off site backup of which he could access from any internet connected computer, regardless of Operating system.
Everything had been fine for nearly the last year, until Yesterday, when suddenly both of his DreamHost accounts were disabled, with only an Email sent to him informing him that the accounts were disabled, with no apparent way to get any of them re-enabled!
My friend spent literally months, uploading files to his storage space, which he was paying for, and I can say with certainty that DreamHost themselves are not running out of space, especially considering that just a couple days ago, this friend of mine had actually removed about 190 gigabytes worth of files off of his account that were able to be placed on another friends server, and as a reward for actually freeing up space on Dreamhost, he gets both of his accounts disabled!
Yeah what's the problem here DreamHost? You don't want customers to use the space you give them? Then don't sell anything more than maybe 5 or 10 gigabytes of disk space max! Don't tell customers they have 250 gigabytes or more of space that they can use, and then turn off their accounts when they actually use the space that they pay for, even if it is for backing up files, because their's no web site that a consumer will put up that's going to use even a gig or two, much less 100 or 250 gigs or more!
Considering that there is a market for offering remote off site backup, I'm surprised Dreamhost isn't willing to understand that yes some customers will want to back up their data to Dreamhost, because let's face it, what else are you going to need or want to do with more than 200 gigs of storage? It ain't all gonna be used for a web site!
Although both my friend's dreamHost accounts were terminated, as was the account of yet another friend of mine on the same day, my account, at least for now is still active, but you can bet just knowing that Dreamhost is willing to do that, doesn't sit well with me.
Some of you may know I have enjoyed the Christian Radio drama series Adventures in Odyssey for over 15 years now. For some time, I've had fairly low quality rips of much of the Odyssey episodes. However, recently that's all changed, as I've recently aquired a decent collection of Odyssey Albums on CD, and as a result, I've spent the last couple of weeks off and on, ripping and tagging these episodes.
I just minutes ago finished tagging the last disc I have in my current collection of Adventures in Odyssey Material, all at nice 320k mp3, compatible with any major mp3 player out there on the Market today.
I have virtually every episode from number 250 or so onward continuously, which equates to having roughly the last 15 years or so of the Program! I still have small gaps, which I hope to fill in over time, but this collection is so valuable to me, especially considering the work I put in to tagging and ripping all of these shows, that I'm going to do my best to back up the material in as many places as I can. Considering the collection's current size is 25GB, that's not going to be Easy to do, especially when one WebHosting provider offers tons of space to it's customers, but then disables accounts if a User wishes to actually use the space he payed for. Which Web Hosting Provider am I refering to you ask? That'd be none other than Dream Host, which until Yesterday I'd been very satisfied with.
DreamHost offered me when I signed up 250GB of disk space, and a couple friends of mine, when they signed up for their DreamHost accounts, got plans of 500 gigs and even 1000 gigs of disk space. Now to be Fair, it does state that the space isn't to be used for Archiving data, however, I would think, even a web site with say a Video Podcast that's shot in HD would be maybe 20-25 gigabytes, and that's assuming several episodes, each around a gig or two, are posted to the site. The point I'm trying to make is that no web site I know of will come close to even using 10 percent of the space that Each customer is supposedly allotted. So naturally, what exactly is wrong with using some of your allowed space, for your own personal off site remote backup storage, especially when you're given so much space to work with?
Why does it matter whether the files you put on your account are part of a web site or not? It's still using disk space whether you put up files that are suppose to be part of a web site or you put up files outside your web directories, in order to back them up.
A friend of mine got a DreamHost account, at my recommendation mind you, for the purpose of putting up a small web page for his weekly countdown show, as well as for being able to do off site backups of rather large CD Image files, as well as other files which he wanted to have a remote off site backup of which he could access from any internet connected computer, regardless of Operating system.
Everything had been fine for nearly the last year, until Yesterday, when suddenly both of his DreamHost accounts were disabled, with only an Email sent to him informing him that the accounts were disabled, with no apparent way to get any of them re-enabled!
My friend spent literally months, uploading files to his storage space, which he was paying for, and I can say with certainty that DreamHost themselves are not running out of space, especially considering that just a couple days ago, this friend of mine had actually removed about 190 gigabytes worth of files off of his account that were able to be placed on another friends server, and as a reward for actually freeing up space on Dreamhost, he gets both of his accounts disabled!
Yeah what's the problem here DreamHost? You don't want customers to use the space you give them? Then don't sell anything more than maybe 5 or 10 gigabytes of disk space max! Don't tell customers they have 250 gigabytes or more of space that they can use, and then turn off their accounts when they actually use the space that they pay for, even if it is for backing up files, because their's no web site that a consumer will put up that's going to use even a gig or two, much less 100 or 250 gigs or more!
Considering that there is a market for offering remote off site backup, I'm surprised Dreamhost isn't willing to understand that yes some customers will want to back up their data to Dreamhost, because let's face it, what else are you going to need or want to do with more than 200 gigs of storage? It ain't all gonna be used for a web site!
Although both my friend's dreamHost accounts were terminated, as was the account of yet another friend of mine on the same day, my account, at least for now is still active, but you can bet just knowing that Dreamhost is willing to do that, doesn't sit well with me.
