Choosing a host, how about Dreamhost ?
From three months I am looking for a decent host for sr-ultimate.com and yet nothing ! I can’t ask in any webmaster forum or else my message box will be filled with offers. I tried asking few people in my messenger lists but either they don’t know anything about hosting or they have a reseller account which of course I don’t want. So how about someone suggest me some really good host ?
My friend Srijit, who is hosting sr-ultimate.com for the time being, referred Bluehost, Site5 & Dreamhost. Now from the three, Dreamhost appealed to me most, because of its excellent support, good reputation and above all, the low pricing.
My requirements
- Above CPU%:- 6.61 , Average MEM%:- 1.90. I really don’t know how to measure it but that was the usage info given to me, when I was asked to move from ResellerZoom.
- 6-10GB of monthly Bandwidth
- 1 GB of Web Space.
- All the basic stuffs a good host has, mainly which I need are GD lib with freetype, PHP 5 ?
- Ruby on Rails is great, as I am learning it
- Pricing like Dremahost, Site5 ^_*
Any “Decent” reviews are appreciated 
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August 8th, 2007
@sreejithrk
Hi Sreejith,
I signed up with DreamHost about a year ago and they are really great.
Even with their cheapest plan you get 140 GB storage and 1400 GB bandwidth, so that’s like more than 100x what you need.
They offer both PHP4, PHP5, Ruby on Rails and shell access which is really great.
Currently you can save $50 if you use one the codes from DreamHost Coupons. Remember you have a 97-money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied, so you’re not really risking anything, if you want to try them out.
Best of luck!
Hi there! I wrote a little article with mini reviews for DreamHost, BlueHost, HostICan and GoDaddy. Check it out here:
http://orange-blog.slickorange.net/?p=12
I hope it helps! Let me know what you think and if you have something to add.
Hendre, your post is nice but, I kind of “don’t like” Godaddy Hosting. It is indeed a very good domain registrar (I have 13 domains with them), but they are not that good of a hosting provider.
Yep, I don’t like them either, just added them to the review for comparison purposes, that is why I say in the review that you might want to look elsewhere. Thanks for reading my article.
What’s your take on http://www.one.com? Unlimited bandwidth, 1GB web space….seems like a real good deal…