Monitoring Server load: DreamHost vs WebFaction
Before somebody comes up and say “That’s not a conclusive proof, DreamHost’s hardware may be capable of handling more users than WebFaction’s”, here you have some specifications for every server — guess what? This WebFaction server is better than my shared host at DreamHost!
.. The conclusive proof to demostrate that DreamHost overloads their servers, while WebFaction cares about their servers’ load, is the amount of users per server:
wc –l /etc/passwd (num users)
free –m
cat /proc/cpuinfo