DreamHost In-Depth (was Re: Dreamhost?)

[Stephen Barncard]

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>* Transfer speed
>   - My previous host maxes out my cable modem during transfers in either
>direction. Using FileZilla (excellent free FTP client) I get uploads around
>90+ KB/sec and downloads around 95KB/sec to 100KB/sec with my 8000K/768K
>Comcast connection. DreamHost never went above 70KB/sec uploading and was an
>anemic 650KB/sec to 700KB/sec when downloading.

That's not what I get here in san francisco - consistent fast.

And you can bulk-load a space delimited list of email aliases and 
addresses to forward to, you don't need a lot of mailboxes to do what 
you mentioned below.

I manage over 50 email aliases. Easy. As far as IMAP, I'm sure you 
can work that out with support.

I stand by my support of Dreamhost.



sqb

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>
>   - DreamHost allows "catch-all" addresses as above, and it offers
>SpamAssassin, but not BOTH. You cannot enable SpamAssassin on any account
>which has a catch-all address! This means I'm now receiving all the junk
>email that in the past was being filtered out for me. I can tell you it's
>very unpleasant. To get around this, I will have to set up discreet email
>addresses for all those runrev@, apple@, microsoft@, and so on addresses. I
>probably have 200 of them at this point, some of which I don't even
>remember. I'll also have to set up a corresponding account within my email
>client to check each of those discreet addresses. Not only does that make it
>much harder to implement my previous scheme -- instead of just typing the
>address and knowing it will get to me, I have to type the address and
>configure two accounts, one on the server and one on the client (15 minutes
>wasted) -- but checking for email would take much longer as my client walks
>through each address/alias.

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stephen barncard
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