I just successfully switched hosting providers. Looks like everything’s up again and running happily on the new host.
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I ended up going with DreamHost, after two of my co-workers recommended it, and so far I’m happy. The cheapest plan starts at $10/month, and they currently have the Code Monster plan, which allows you to host up to 15 full domains, on sale for $20/month. All plans have unlimited MySQL databases and more than enough bandwidth. When I signed up, they had a St. Patrick’s Day special with tripled disk storage (7680MB instead of 2560MB) and bandwidth (192GB instead of 64GB). They seem to have the same special right now (only until the end of today, apparently) due to their 100,000 Domains Sale, and I have a feeling that they’ll find similar excuses to advertise this special in the future.
They use a proprietary control panel instead of cPanel, but it’s actually pretty nice and gives you a lot of control. Managing your domain, email, MySQL, etc. is very easy.
The server supports PHP, Python, Perl, and the usual stuff. Unfortunately, they currently only support version 1.6.7 of Ruby. I would have been interested in playing with Ruby on Rails, or with some other Ruby-based applications such as Instiki, but all of these require 1.8.2 or higher. The reason is that there’s no stable Debian package for 1.8.x. I’m hoping that they’ll upgrade this once (or if…) it comes out.
Some people on the DreamHost forums were complaining about performance issues, but I haven’t noticed anything (then again, I’m only running a simple blog without any particular demands…). Apparently it’s a little bit of a hit and miss situation, depending on the server you end up on. But they have a money back guarantee, so there’s not much to lose.
If you do end up going with them, please enter “sfgeek” as the referrer.
Okay cool. I’m getting closer to going to a dedicated hosting solution because of the performance issues. My current server is so loaded down that retrieving email is sometimes a problem.
As for the look and feel… I’ve noticed it showing up all over the place, so I guess it’s time for me to customize it or just move to something else. Son of a…
Dedicated hosting sounds nice, although that’s probably a little over my budget for now…
I’ve never really noticed any significant performance problems with email (then again, I’ve now switched to GMail anyway), although my web performance actually seems a little better since I’ve switched to DreamHost. Maybe I was lucky and got on a good (for now at least) server.
I’ve tentatively set my theme to something else (there’s a huge amount of cool themes that came out of the WordPress 1.5 theme contest), but I still need to sit down at some point and either come up with my own theme or customize an existing one.
March 24th, 2005 at 11:20 am
Who did you end up with? I’m currently in the market for a new provider.
Chad
March 24th, 2005 at 9:17 pm
I ended up going with DreamHost, after two of my co-workers recommended it, and so far I’m happy. The cheapest plan starts at $10/month, and they currently have the Code Monster plan, which allows you to host up to 15 full domains, on sale for $20/month. All plans have unlimited MySQL databases and more than enough bandwidth. When I signed up, they had a St. Patrick’s Day special with tripled disk storage (7680MB instead of 2560MB) and bandwidth (192GB instead of 64GB). They seem to have the same special right now (only until the end of today, apparently) due to their 100,000 Domains Sale, and I have a feeling that they’ll find similar excuses to advertise this special in the future.
They use a proprietary control panel instead of cPanel, but it’s actually pretty nice and gives you a lot of control. Managing your domain, email, MySQL, etc. is very easy.
The server supports PHP, Python, Perl, and the usual stuff. Unfortunately, they currently only support version 1.6.7 of Ruby. I would have been interested in playing with Ruby on Rails, or with some other Ruby-based applications such as Instiki, but all of these require 1.8.2 or higher. The reason is that there’s no stable Debian package for 1.8.x. I’m hoping that they’ll upgrade this once (or if…) it comes out.
Some people on the DreamHost forums were complaining about performance issues, but I haven’t noticed anything (then again, I’m only running a simple blog without any particular demands…). Apparently it’s a little bit of a hit and miss situation, depending on the server you end up on. But they have a money back guarantee, so there’s not much to lose.
If you do end up going with them, please enter “sfgeek” as the referrer.
March 24th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
By the way, in case you were wondering: No, I did not rip off your site’s style. This is simply the new default theme for WordPress 1.5.
I’ll have to customize it a little when I get a chance, as probably half of all WordPress based blogs out there use this theme right now…
March 28th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Okay cool. I’m getting closer to going to a dedicated hosting solution because of the performance issues. My current server is so loaded down that retrieving email is sometimes a problem.
As for the look and feel… I’ve noticed it showing up all over the place, so I guess it’s time for me to customize it or just move to something else. Son of a…
March 28th, 2005 at 5:10 pm
Dedicated hosting sounds nice, although that’s probably a little over my budget for now…
I’ve never really noticed any significant performance problems with email (then again, I’ve now switched to GMail anyway), although my web performance actually seems a little better since I’ve switched to DreamHost. Maybe I was lucky and got on a good (for now at least) server.
I’ve tentatively set my theme to something else (there’s a huge amount of cool themes that came out of the WordPress 1.5 theme contest), but I still need to sit down at some point and either come up with my own theme or customize an existing one.