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I’ve switched hosts to DreamHost (note: link contains a referral). I signed up back in March, when they had a sale where they tripled all the space and bandwidth. This sale has been extended all the way to August 29th. I had another domain set up here, but then I decided to do a domain/host switch. Why? I wanted more space.

Here are some of the things I like about DreamHost:

• They offer SSH access. It’s not necessary, but very useful.
• IMAP email.
• If you need some help there’s a lot of resources available – the knowledgebase, the wiki, and the discussion forums.
• The amount of disk space and bandwidth you get grows every week. In my case, on the lowest plan, I get an extra 20MB/1GB per week, or an additional 1040MB/52GB per year. For me that’s equivalent to unlimited disk/bandwidth, because it’ll take me forever to use it all.
• You get to make suggestions to the DreamHost team, such as adding a new feature, upgrading a feature, etc. and sometimes they’ll implement them.
• Support for both PHP4 and PHP5.
• Neat stuff like python and ruby on rails.

Here are a couple of things I don’t like:

• The MYSQL setup is a little awkward. For each database you set up, you have to have a unique hostname as well.
• When I first signed up the mysql servers kept on going down. It’s all good now.
• If you set up additional emails the usernames are hard to remember, as they’re in a format like m0021729.

Overall I like DreamHost enough to reccommend them.

Anyway. What with the host switch and the URL changes there might be a few broken links on the site. If you find any, do let me know.