Web-Host Change
Well, it’s hard to believe that we’ve had our own domain now for almost 2 years. So as the time has approached, I couldn’t resist looking for a little better deal. Hopefully, my good deal doesn’t turn into a nightmare. I can’t say that I wasn’t unhappy with ixWebHosting but I was able (via a coupon) to get 2 years with dreamhost for same amount but more double the space, plus database access, plus Ruby on Rails support, plus Python support and PHP 5 (sorry for all the technical jargon — it’s important to me). In the process, I am also getting a second domain name (devpicayune.com for Dev-Picayune of course). The big deal is that I have never moved a domain, so you may experience some minor cyber-turbulence over the next few days. Once it appears to be working on the host, I’ll post again.
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June 9th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
I have been very happy with shared hosting that I have from DreamHost. I have:
Debian Linux
20 GB of disk space
1 terabyte of bandwidth
Unlimited domains
675 email addresses
PHP, Perl, MySQL, Jabber, WebDAV, Subversion, Ruby on Rails, WordPress, Gallery, phpBB, etc.
and the customer support is fantastic. The turnaround has been very fast and they have helped me even when I f**ked things up myself. For example, they restored a bunch of files that I had nuked on my WebDAV share and they had it done in around 2 hours and that was on a weekend!
and it’s only $7.95/month though I don’t really pay anything because I make $97 off of referrals so it pays for itself and gives me a bit of extra income. I have been very, very pleased with them.