Happy Customer = Dropping Disk Stop ?

Just read Josh's blog and it stated there that decreasing disk space and bandwidth quote for new signup stops. And I notice it is indeed stop now.

So, do you guys feel that your sites with DH have better uptime lately ? I feel that it is for me for these couple months.

Dino

I think uptime is better than disk space.

I don't think stopping the drops in disk space and bandwidth will have any meaningful effect at all.

And my sites are as good as ever - neither better nor worse (knock on wood).

I think it's called putting an end to the joke. ;)

If it wasn't a joke, and they were really trying to cut back... they might have thought to drop the weekly increases after you sign up.

Seiler is right!

I have to agree. I would figure they were saving some space and such as they can handle double the customers as before...

If it's stopped, I think the numbers should be changed to something more rounded, as the current numbers are far too decimal. The current affiliate linking images still state the old "200 GB, 2 TB values" aswell.

If I remember correctly, the affiliate linking images are still correct if someone uses a promo code during sign-up, when a promo code is used the "reducing quota joke" is bypassed and the new customer receives the 200GT/2TB allotments.

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If I remember correctly, the affiliate linking images are still correct if someone uses a promo code during sign-up, when a promo code is used the "reducing quota joke" is bypassed and the new customer receives the 200GT/2TB allotments.

That's true, though I agree with Jewels in that it's a little unclear to me whether you'd use an affiliate linking image with a promo code because the affiliate link image wouldn't say anything about the promo code itself. Or do you think it would make sense to use the image for a link that encoded a promo code?

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If it wasn't a joke, and they were really trying to cut back... they might have thought to drop the weekly increases after you sign up.

I agree with that. In fact, I think their uptime statistic recently is getting better. And that 'achievement' may have to do with the moving of some servers to new data center.

Dino

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That's true, though I agree with Jewels in that it's a little unclear to me whether you'd use an affiliate linking image with a promo code because the affiliate link image wouldn't say anything about the promo code itself. Or do you think it would make sense to use the image for a link that encoded a promo code?

After having a think about what I posted, I have to agree with both you and Jewels, the banners would be confusing to someone who is not in the know about Dreamhost's promo codes, and also using an encoded promo url on the banner is not really ideal either since the image quotes the price which would be different from the banner when using a promo code. I guess Dreamhost should now pick some quotas, and change the banners to match to remove the confusion.

Yeah, either that or they *could* change the quotas for all referred customers regardless of whether they used to promo code or not to the originala 200GB/2TB limits (for the L1 plans that the banners advertise).

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the banners would be confusing to someone who is not in the know about Dreamhost's promo codes

People that live in caves probably won't be signing up for web hosting anyway. tongue

LOL. But in all seriousness, people clicking on affiliate link ads for DreamHost might be cavemen. (with apologies to John Lehr).

Happy Customer = Dropping Disk Stop ?