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Is there any way for existing customer to get a discount on signing up for another year of hosting?

Not at all. They are bastards! I haven't used them for about a year. I have been thinking about getting an account for a while now. Saw the special and decided to sign up. No, I can't since I was a customer on the past.

So F#%& them, I am not going to sign up!

Yea, F them for not giving you the new customer 90% off promotion! Greedy bastards. (They have this to get new customers, you have already come and gone and most likely won't stick around to the point of profitability.)

Don't bother with them if you want anything more then a personal site. Their slowness and downtime will eat any commercial site alive. I'm a long time member but I can't use them for more then my blog and photos (I have lots and lots - more then 10 gigs and that would fill up most vps's) because when it comes to sites for other people you'll just loose customers.

I'm editing to add that I'm looking for a way to move my gallery (10+ gigs of photos) over to slicehost with a mounted "S3 volume" I'm not sure of the performance hits, but I'm willing to bet I'll get a faster site out of it.

With what they charge I don't see how you could even assume it's rock solid hosting. I have an account I use for backups and have no complaints. They are asking for a 10 spot in exchange for a year of hosting and a free domain name. Put it in perspective, that's less than the cost of a pizza.

That should be very, very obvious based on the cost. However, I guess it's good to repeat it because it's apparently not obvious to some people.

For what you're paying, it's actually a fine value. It's only for toy sites and such, but it's good to have a place for toy sites.

probably not, they do that 777 deal all the time, so a lot of people are already signed up under that. i.e. when I signed up for dreamhost about 4 years ago, I used that same deal.

I still stick around with them, even though I hate the service, but that is mostly because I told about the deal to a few people when I signed up, so I make more money from referrals than I pay for hosting.

Is there any reason you couldn't just sign up for another account? Different credit card? Not the same as getting another year for $10, but you'd have unlimited bandwidth and disk for a year for ... $10.

After you remove domain from one account, you cannot add it to another one purchased with discount.

Who's removing domains? I was thinking strictly about unlimited bandwidth and storage.

If you have DreamHost account, you already have unlimited bandwidth and storage, what's the point of getting another one?

Also, read their definition of unlimited: http://dreamhost.com/unlimited.html

Uh, actually I don't. Maybe I signed up at the wrong time or something. Big enough, but definitely not unlimited.

To wit, here is my current status:

Total Bandwidth Provided: 13128 GB ($0.1/GB over) Total Used So Far: 1.362 GB Estimated Usage For Cycle: 2.484 GB Estimated Overage Charges: $0.00

Obviously that's not the "unlimited" plan.

Well, I have not unlimited plan ("My Crazy Domain Insane" plan), but you can upgrade to it.

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