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Alex

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i'm signing up for their basic plan... it's about time I have my own website! 🙂

not that most people will care but this is everyone's last chance to:

1) persuade me not to do this and go with another company
2) gain referral bonuses (PM me your email and I'll say you referred me when I sign up)

the referral is obviously first come first served! 🙂

I'm looking to do this asap!

thanks

Alex
 
It totally depends on what you want to host with them. For personal websites, Dreamhost is awesome. Their control panel is set up differently from Cpanel/Directadmin hosts, but you grow to like it. SSH access is a big advantage. They are liberal with letting you do what you want with that SSH access (for example, compile your own PHP version).

The main problem with Dreamhost is their databases, which are slower than I like. If your code is badly-written (or doesn't use any caching), you would be in trouble in case your blog (wordpress, for example) gets Dugg/slashdotted/reddited/whatever. But, with a little tweaking and a little common sense, you can stand up to a Digg/Slashdot without any problem. Also, you wouldn't wanna use Dreamhost for mission-critical websites.

They've had a few glitches over the past few years, but they've been pretty open about admitting and fixing their mistakes (see their blog). Their customer service is also more than satisfactory. If you need instant or real-time phone support, Dreamhost is not for you. They take an hour or two to respond, but they've solved any problem I've thrown their way.

Their billing system is great because you can cancel/upgrade/downgrade/add features instantly, without having to wait for a human being to confirm your transaction.

I've been with them since 2005 and don't intend to leave.

Ofcourse, everything is YMMV. Remember to pay by credit card and not Paypal if you want to use the 90-something day money back guarantee.
 
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
It totally depends on what you want to host with them. For personal websites, Dreamhost is awesome. Their control panel is set up differently from Cpanel/Directadmin hosts, but you grow to like it. SSH access is a big advantage. They are liberal with letting you do what you want with that SSH access (for example, compile your own PHP version).

The main problem with Dreamhost is their databases, which are slower than I like. If your code is badly-written (or doesn't use any caching), you would be in trouble in case your blog (wordpress, for example) gets Dugg/slashdotted/reddited/whatever. But, with a little tweaking and a little common sense, you can stand up to a Digg/Slashdot without any problem. Also, you wouldn't wanna use Dreamhost for mission-critical websites.

They've had a few glitches over the past few years, but they've been pretty open about admitting and fixing their mistakes (see their blog). Their customer service is also more than satisfactory. If you need instant or real-time phone support, Dreamhost is not for you. They take an hour or two to respond, but they've solved any problem I've thrown their way.

Their billing system is great because you can cancel/upgrade/downgrade/add features instantly, without having to wait for a human being to confirm your transaction.

I've been with them since 2005 and don't intend to leave.

Ofcourse, everything is YMMV. Remember to pay by credit card and not Paypal if you want to use the 90-something day money back guarantee.
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thanks that was a pretty clarifying answer

it's supposed to be a small, personal website.
i intend to include a small forum (phbb) and personal image gallery but that's about it.

i started working as a web-developer here in brazil and figured i needed somewhere to keep my portfolio and stuff like that.

also it's just nice to have your own webspace 🙂
 
Originally posted by: franguinho
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
It totally depends on what you want to host with them. For personal websites, Dreamhost is awesome. Their control panel is set up differently from Cpanel/Directadmin hosts, but you grow to like it. SSH access is a big advantage. They are liberal with letting you do what you want with that SSH access (for example, compile your own PHP version).

The main problem with Dreamhost is their databases, which are slower than I like. If your code is badly-written (or doesn't use any caching), you would be in trouble in case your blog (wordpress, for example) gets Dugg/slashdotted/reddited/whatever. But, with a little tweaking and a little common sense, you can stand up to a Digg/Slashdot without any problem. Also, you wouldn't wanna use Dreamhost for mission-critical websites.

They've had a few glitches over the past few years, but they've been pretty open about admitting and fixing their mistakes (see their blog). Their customer service is also more than satisfactory. If you need instant or real-time phone support, Dreamhost is not for you. They take an hour or two to respond, but they've solved any problem I've thrown their way.

Their billing system is great because you can cancel/upgrade/downgrade/add features instantly, without having to wait for a human being to confirm your transaction.

I've been with them since 2005 and don't intend to leave.

Ofcourse, everything is YMMV. Remember to pay by credit card and not Paypal if you want to use the 90-something day money back guarantee.
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thanks that was a pretty clarifying answer

it's supposed to be a small, personal website.
i intend to include a small forum (phbb) and personal image gallery but that's about it.

i started working as a web-developer here in brazil and figured i needed somewhere to keep my portfolio and stuff like that.

also it's just nice to have your own webspace 🙂
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You may want to look around (in ATOT I believe, unless it got moved in the reorganization). dartworth was offering free hosting (closed right now, with a post to be reopened soon), and there are a few other web hosts run buy AT members.
 
I used dreamhost for a year and I didn't have any major issues with them. I loved the control panel, the support was always quick and good. Of course, they did just have that issue with 3500 some odd sites becoming compromised. I switched to hostpc a couple of weeks ago for a couple reasons:

1. I wasn't using anywhere near the bandwidth/space they provided for the money.
2. Upload and download speeds weren't that fast, which wasn't never a huge issue except when I was uploading my entire site when I switched to them and when I downloaded it to leave.
3. I didn't want to pay $120 bucks.

I don't really recommend hostpc either they're ok but I've had better hosts in the past. I ended up with them because they were cheap.
 
so far i'm very happy with dreamhost and it sucks that there was that ftp password leak but sh!t happens and i hope they learn from their mistakes...
the support is excellent and i'm working on my site right now
 
Originally posted by: lilcam
good luck franguinho. i havent heard many bad things about hostpc, but everyone has their own opinion.
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😛

thanks hope i won't need it but it'll be interesting! 🙂

i'll add a link to my sig once i'm done!
 
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