Comments on: Moving servers yet again! http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/03/25/moving-servers-yet-again/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stuart Colville http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/03/25/moving-servers-yet-again/#comment-261 Stuart Colville Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:59:54 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/03/25/moving-servers-yet-again/#comment-261 @Andy: I have not heard anything but good things about DreamHost but they a touch on the cheap side. Although I <em>am</em> using their shared hosting they provide a ton of features such as Ruby on Rails and Subversion both of which I've been meaning to get into. Using a single dedicated server gives you control, but it also means that one server is running everything; mail, databases and serving web pages. At least with what I now have with dreamhost my database, mail and web stuff are all on separate servers which will help with any future hardware failures as I would only lose one service temporarily rather than all three. It comes with a 97-day money back guaruntee so I will see how the first couple of months goes. It's a pain to keep changing hosts so hopefully DreamHost will live up to my expectations. @Andy: I have not heard anything but good things about DreamHost but they a touch on the cheap side. Although I am using their shared hosting they provide a ton of features such as Ruby on Rails and Subversion both of which I’ve been meaning to get into.

Using a single dedicated server gives you control, but it also means that one server is running everything; mail, databases and serving web pages. At least with what I now have with dreamhost my database, mail and web stuff are all on separate servers which will help with any future hardware failures as I would only lose one service temporarily rather than all three.

It comes with a 97-day money back guaruntee so I will see how the first couple of months goes. It’s a pain to keep changing hosts so hopefully DreamHost will live up to my expectations.

]]> By: Andrew http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/03/25/moving-servers-yet-again/#comment-260 Andrew Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:47:48 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/03/25/moving-servers-yet-again/#comment-260 I hope you have better luck, although I would recommend speaking to Clive who had a few "issues" with Dreamhost. There's also a lot of complaints on Google Groups, however this is mostly referencing shared hosting from what I can see so you might be ok. <a href="http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=dreamhost">http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=dreamhost</a> I can always recommend a good dedi host if necessary ;) I hope you have better luck, although I would recommend speaking to Clive who had a few “issues” with Dreamhost.

There’s also a lot of complaints on Google Groups, however this is mostly referencing shared hosting from what I can see so you might be ok.

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=dreamhost

I can always recommend a good dedi host if necessary ;)

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