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I have dreamhost (got in on their last 777), and I'm pretty happy with them. They've been down a few times, so we're talking like 99.0% ut, instead of 99.999 or some crap like that... but for the money they're really good.

I'm happy with them.
 
I signed up. Should be a fine place for testing web stuff that on a faster connection than the upload on my dsl.
 
Now I just need to learn how to use Flash. I want to make a flash intro to my site that has music with a quick slideshow of family, friends, and GF. I'm going for a family related page, as you can tell.
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Now I just need to learn how to use Flash. I want to make a flash intro to my site that has music with a quick slideshow of family, friends, and GF. I'm going for a family related page, as you can tell.
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Have you used/tried SwishMax? Easy way to create anything Flash 😉
 
Originally posted by: mscdex0
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Now I just need to learn how to use Flash. I want to make a flash intro to my site that has music with a quick slideshow of family, friends, and GF. I'm going for a family related page, as you can tell.
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Have you used/tried SwishMax? Easy way to create anything Flash 😉
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Yeah..I have it installed..although i'm very unfamiliar with Flash. I'm wondering if it's even worth doing to whole site in flash. Would doing the Flash intro and whole site in flash eat up a lot of bandwith?
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: mscdex0
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Now I just need to learn how to use Flash. I want to make a flash intro to my site that has music with a quick slideshow of family, friends, and GF. I'm going for a family related page, as you can tell.
Click to expand...

Have you used/tried SwishMax? Easy way to create anything Flash 😉
Click to expand...

Yeah..I have it installed..although i'm very unfamiliar with Flash. I'm wondering if it's even worth doing to whole site in flash. Would doing the Flash intro and whole site in flash eat up a lot of bandwith?
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Please don't do that 🙁 Flash user interfaces are usually horrific unless you are very good. Most people (like 90% from some research) will usually skip flash intros too.
 
Thank you very much OP. I have been looking at hosting for a while and this was too good to be true to pass up. That is the thing that I am actually worried about though.
 
Originally posted by: spc hink
Thank you very much OP. I have been looking at hosting for a while and this was too good to be true to pass up. That is the thing that I am actually worried about though.
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Since I bought it this weekend it's been flawless. I'm really pleased with them and as you can see some of the people above have been with them for a year or longer and they're pleased. I'm pretty sure everything will be fine. They're reviews seem very good as well...

 
That reminds me...did we get the Rossman's blessing on this thread? 😀😀😀
PS My personal experience with DreamHost is that their mail servers are very much faster than 1and1 - both pop/imap and webmail.
The single tech support question response took 48 hours. . .
 
I signed up this past summer and have been fairly pleased.
My Ruby on Rails applications are not always fast and stable, but I believe this has been due to my not setting them up correctly.
When I have requested tech support they have been pretty fast. VERY fast when I complained about an issue I marked urgent.
They listen to what their customers want, the reason Rails was installed.

And of course you get a lot more space for less than other places.
 
I'm very pleased with them so far. Just signed up and I love it. Finally SSH access and you can't beat the price - free domain, 4.8gb storage and 120gb monthly bandwidth is very good for only $10!!!
 
Damn, I'm getting this error when I try to process my payment:

NZA Fatal Error!
The developer says:
Error Creating Domain: Unable to find home for DomainService of type http

Handy stack trace:
Ndn::Common::Nza::Step::FatalError('Error Creating Domain: Unable to find home for DomainService of ...') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Ndn/Signup/Web/Signup.pm line 684
Ndn::Signup::Web::Signup::Finish:😀o('Ndn::Signup::Web::Signup::Finish') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Ndn/Common/Nza.pm line 554
Ndn::Common::Nza:😀oStep('Ndn::Signup::Web::Signup=HASH(0xb34a950)', 'Finish') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Ndn/Common/Nza.pm line 174
Ndn::Common::Nza::fill('Ndn::Signup::Web::Signup=HASH(0xb34a950)', 'Ndn::Common::Context=HASH(0xb9441b0)') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Ndn/Signup/Web.pm line 55
eval {...} called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Ndn/Signup/Web.pm line 54
Ndn::Signup::Web::Main('Ndn::Signup::Web=HASH(0xb349dc0)', 'Ndn::Common::Context=HASH(0xb9441b0)') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Ndn/Common/Web.pm line 170
Ndn::Common::Web:😀isplay('Ndn::Signup::Web=HASH(0xb349dc0)', 'Ndn::Common::Context=HASH(0xb9441b0)') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Ndn/Common/Web.pm line 106
Ndn::Common::Web:😛rocQuery('Ndn::Signup::Web=HASH(0xb349dc0)', 'Ndn::Common::Context=HASH(0xb9441b0)') called at /ndn/web/signup/web/index.cgi line 20
Apache::ROOTpanel_2edreamhost_2ecom::signup::index_2ecgi::handler('Apache=SCALAR(0xb900a28)') called at /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/Apache/Registry.pm line 149
eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/Apache/Registry.pm line 149
Apache::Registry::handler('Apache=SCALAR(0xb900a28)') called at /dev/null line 0
eval {...} called at /dev/null line 0

EDIT: I've tried IE and Firefox...
EDIT 2: I've been billed twice by them for both attempts for $9.24*2, and I have no domain registered or hosting!! ARRRGGGG :|
 
I got the same error with Opera 🙁

edit: just received a payment receipt e-mail so it looks like it went through
 
Yeah, Under Billing -> Manage Account -> Plans, I now have two plans, which I can't seem to cancel. And I have 0 domains hosted or registered. So the payment went through, as I checked on my credit card account online, and I have absolutely nothing to show for it. I get the feeling this might be reallllly hard to straighten out too...
 
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