Flirting With New Hosts
Today I coughed-up $240 or so for 1-year of DreamHost hosting. I have been using Textdrive for the past 9 months or so, and have become increasingly frustrated (MySQL crashes, sporadically sluggish performance, and high prices).
The straw that broke my back was my inability to add a new domain without coughing up more money. I already pay $60/month for business-class hosting (ha) and am limited to 5 domains. Simply ridiculous. So, here’s what I get for roughly $20/month with DH:
- Storage: 400 GB
- Bandwidth/month: 4TB
- Databases: unlimited
- Domains: unlimited
- Custom DNS: included
I won’t bother to list everything else, those are the key points to me. I’ll also be completely honest: none of this mean anything if the performance sucks. I will be evaluating DH quite a bit over the next couple of weeks. At the moment I’ve spent an entire day failing to get RubyOnRails/FastCGI working properly. So, I’m not getting too excited yet. But I am hoping for better things.
Comments
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Definitely monitor things; dreamhost sometimes has a habit of not staying up all the time. And watch out for performance hits if something else is running on the machine you're on. arlingtondrunks.com was on there (for very cheap); if it had stayed up when the cheap deal ended, I don't know if it would've stayed at dreamhost, to be honest. Just my thoughts.
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If you're a business hoster at TextDrive, your capabilities should have been upgraded with the recent plan reorganization: http://textdrive.com/hosting/business -- meaning that the 5-domain limit should be in the past. Yes, shared hosting can be a pain, but I've had few complaints about my level of service. But right, if you can make DH work for you, then go for it.
