I’m with Dreamhost since July, 2005 hosting my other websites, and now I use Dreamhost to host this blog as well. I decided to move my blog after much consideration that I dont want to risk my blog from being accidently shut down due to ‘my experiments’ on the VPS.
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postgresql,great feature
Nice article
Textdrive.com is indeed geek friendly, considering it is hard to find a hosting which support postgresql.
It even follows the web usability standards to the letter :)
If you’re looking for webhost that support postgresql, take a look at textdrive. I think they have everything that geeks dream for(ssh, svn, cvs, darcs, lighttpd, python, rails, php-fastcgi-suexec, 5 website under basic plan, long running process on other port and then proxy through apache, etc). they used webmin for cp but believe me, you’ll like it.
well, i don’t think it is good to use such services calles shared hosting. my main concern is that on the same server, there is a co-client that is a bad programmer and puts some scripts that eat a lot of CPU and RAM, and unoptimized SQL. it would be much better if you would go on a dedicated server of if you cannot afford it a VPS.
ah, dreamhost is quite limited on Ruby On Rails though, better get a good webhosting for that at http://www.railshostinginfo.com/
and it uses it’s own proprietary control panel (doesnt use cpanel, dreamhost), so it might take time to get used to.. it doesnt have postgresql either so kinda a major turn down for geeks out there.
btw, for all of you out there… just dont take my word for it, because your milleage may vary.
It’s prudent to do some research before settling down for your webhosting provider.
http://odeo.com/show/95781/view
I didn’t said that RP is not limited. That’s why i asked you about DH, because i am still searching for the perfect host.. even if i think that is a dream.
Maybe that dream might be dreamhost.. who knows.
I havent experienced that before, but I’ve tried resellerpanel based hosting, they are quite limited though
Usually hosting companies use some small tricks to avoid servers overloading.
Some of this tricks are: restrict number of files, files size, restrict database queries, apache modules.
Do you have limitations like that on your site?