Well, after weeks of shopping around and days of fiddling with RedHat 9 and Centos (linux distributions) I decided to host my personal website at DreamHost. They have an excellent deal allowing you to host several domains on one account for only $9.95/month ($7.95/month if you sign up for 2 years), and that includes a free domain name registration for as long as you are paying them.
So I moved my home pages and Blogger web log to scottnolan.org and scottnolan.org/blogger.html and copied all the files off Erci’s vampyr.org servers at Interland. Erci will be moving her site and blog over to the DreamHost systems soon too. Interland had great support and connectivity, but their billing was per domain, and as we are adding more domains soon, it was getting expensive. We’ll talk to the folks at La Belle about moving too, but they are paid for quite some time at Interland, so there is no hurry yet. We’ll be standing up a few new domains too (Arthur Murray DC and SGI Fortune District).
One of the other nice things about the DreamHost accounts is that they let us do imap/webmail with SpamAssassin protection and Mailman mailing lists (it’d be really nice to finally get the La Belle and Fortune District mailing lists set up properly for a change). They also have one button installs of things like WordPress, Drupal, TextPattern, MySQL, and phBBS – which will make our lives a lot easier.
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Thanks for the info on Dreamhost. I have been thinking about buying a domain for Melanie and me. I had just not gotten around to looking for a hosting company. It looks like you may have done the research for me.
Cheers,
Scott… the other one.
If you are certain you only need one domain, then there are cheaper solutions than DreamHost (electrickitten.com for one), but I liked DreamHost because they’ll let us host several domains (sharing the same space).
What I did was figured out what software I wanted to run first (WordPress, Drupal, TextPattern, phBBS for me) and then looked at each of those websites for recommended hosting services, and discovered that DreamHost and BlueHost are basically on all of the above. Where there is agreement, I figured it’s a good deal.
I just made the switch to Dreamhost, too. I’ve moved maybe half of my sites — I’ll move the rest as soon as I get a chance. I’m impressed so far. It’s nearly as good as hosting my own sites, which is all that I’ve ever done, but without the stress.
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