Dreamhost had their 9th birthday, and as they’ve done for the last few years, increased everyone’s disk usage and bandwidth quotas again.

Except, this time they’ve gone even crazier than it used to be.

When I first signed up (30th April, 2005), I was on the Level 3 “Code Monster” plan - USD$15.95/month pre-paid for 2 years. That gave me 2560MB of disk space, and 64GB of bandwidth quota per month.
It was perfectly adequate for my needs then, and suited me fine.

Then, they decided to double the disk space and triple the bandwidth quota for everyone. 7680MB Disk space, and 192GB quota - Neat. They also decided to give everyone an automaticly increasing limit, which would accumulate on a weekly basis.
So, I had something like 120MB/week disk increase, and 8GB/week bandwidth quota increase.

Then came some more craziness, they decided to blow that all to heck, and fiddled with it again, so I had nearly 80GB of disk space, increasing at about 480MB per week, and around 1.8TB of bandwidth, increasing at about 16GB per week.

Now, in their latest move, they’ve gone and set me at a base of 4TB of Bandwidth quota, and 400GB of disk space. They’ve also raised the weekly acumulation rate to 32GB for bandwidth, and 2GB for disk space.

So, here’s what I now see when I log into the control panel:

Disk: 3% of 412.0 GB
(+2.0 GB / week)

Xfer: 0% of 4700 GB
(+32 GB / week)

By my estimates (i.e: I just made it all up) - I could fill up the 4GB CF card with photos taken on my Canon 20D, every day - and I would never actually come close to ever filling up all that disk space.

Who could seriously push 4GB per day of new content to a site, unless they’re running a major media empire or something.

So… anyone looking to do podcasts, or need a bunch of bandwidth and/or disk space? Give me a shout!