Re: web host

["Brendan Kidwell-2" <user=1552@nabble.blu.org>]

 On 2/9/08, John Boland <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> i'm looking for simple web hosting. 
> 
> any recommendations?  i've used ixweb in the past.  any other 
> possibilities? 
> 

I strongly recommend Dreamhost < http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html > 
despite the bad news you've probably heard about them in the last few years 
with network outages and last month's billing snafu to end all snafus. 

I've been with them for years, and my impression is that they've always 
tried to be as transparent as possible. Their free email support makes a few 
promises about what they can and can't solve for you, but then they go ahead 
and help you with things that aren't their problem to deal with. (For 
example, my customized PHP installation broke and I asked them if they'd 
done anything interesting on their end; they couldn't point to any 
system-wide changes, but took the initiative and did some basic debugging 
and suggested some courses of action.) The have a very well populated 
open-access wiki that helps you get going with best practices and howto 
documents. 

For comparison, their cheapest plan (the only one that makes sense for 
individuals and small businesses) is $119.40 per year and offer anything you 
could expect to get from a shared unix web host: more space and bandwidth 
than it's physically possible to use without unfairly hogging the CPU; 
mysql; PHP; Ruby; Jabber; Subversion; One-click video conversion for 
flash-based streaming playback; full shell access; unlimited number of 
sites/domains; and a very nice account Control Panel. 

I guess they're not really very "basic", but I can't help expressing my 
enthusiasm. 

Brendan Kidwell 

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