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• For the record... (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  For me DreamHost fills the following niche.
  
  * Cheaper than a virtual.
  
  * 90% of the features I need (svn servers, cron, shell)
  
  * Unreachable disk and traffic limits.
  
  * Control panel that doesn't suck.
  
  * As many domains and shell users as I want.
  
  It's a great place to shove lots and lots and lots of generic or bulky stuff where CPU doesn't matter, distribute large binary packages, hold all my system backups, store my SVN repositories (except for svn.ali.as) and general get stuff done.
  
  It is, however, NOT the place w
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by renodino (6856)

    I realize its discount shared hosting. But thus far, DH has had serious problems delivering simple static pages, not to mention email. Even discount shared hosting has certain minimum requirements. A great config panel isn't much use if no one can view your website. E.g., in response to everyone's support tickets for the *latest* issue, the response included this happy little tidbit (posted on 3/23):

    Some of you are also asking when this issue will be fixed, I wish I had concrete information for you, but i
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by renodino (6856)

      Oh, and I forgot to mention, Bluehost has perl 5.8.8! w00t!

      Alas, they don't appear to have SVN...
      • Re:For the record... (Score:1)

        by Alias (5735) on 2008.03.26 20:31 (#61798) Homepage Journal

        I have to say though, bluehost look very very good.
        
        In comparison to DH, I get IMAP and Postgres, at the loss of SVN.
        
        So if I moved all my svn repos over to my virtual host, I could probably get the rest into bluehost pretty easily.

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