Every Flavour Beans

I got this email from th Dreamhost folks couple of weeks ago and they sent me five special invitation codes that can be used to sign-up for Dreamhost web hosting packages but get four times the normal bandwidth and hard disk space. Here is the complete text of the email:

You just got five DreamHost Invitations!

Hey Tabrez!

This email is to let you know that you, yes you, have just been given
five (5) oh so special DreamHost Invitations you can use to invite your
friends and colleagues to DreamHost!

Of course, they don’t NEED an official invitation to sign up, but if you
email them and tell them to use one of these five invitation codes:

600482886073
134970060629
450568037263
670907616224
277212429492

… they will get all these super special advantages not available any
other way:

* They will get four (4) times the normal disk and bandwidth!
* If they choose our five-year plan, they’ll get $150 off!
* If they choose our ten-year plan, they’ll get $200 off!
* YOU will still earn a full $97 for each person who signs up!

That means these five invitations are worth like, $485 in your pocket!
(Each code is good for only ONE sweet DreamHostering referral!)

Tell your invitees to use the 12-digit code you give them in the “Promo
Code” field when they sign up at:

https://signup.dreamhost.com/

So there you are. All the details are included in the quoted email text. Have a look at Dreamhost’s normal shared hosting package feature set. It comes with 500GB of disk space and 5TB of bandwidth. Now multiply that with four!

The reason for not posting the invite codes here earlier is that, in my opinion, even the normal amount of bandwidth and disk space that comes with Dreamhost shared hosting package is way, way more than most users will ever need. I don’t use even 2% of it. What then is the big attraction of four times of that bandwidth and disk space? If there is someone who hosts a lot of static content and this kind of huge disk space and bandwidth make sense to them, well, the invite codes are here for the grabbing:
Code 1 : 600482886073
Code 2 : 134970060629
Code 3 : 450568037263
Code 4 : 670907616224
Code 5 : 277212429492

There may be many such invite codes posted on Dreamhost forum too. Hosting service wise, Dreamhost is pretty good. Apart from the never going away ~30 minutes of downtime almost every week, I like their hosting service very much. For example, they have got very good wiki documentation. You can read reviews of it on the Internet.