The Gleeson Bloglomerate is now hosted by the fine hosts at DreamHost. If you are seeing this post, then you are seeing us on our spiffy new server. There was some downtime for the blog today (because I mistyped our MySQL password, duh) but that’s all fixed now. We are having some trouble configuring our e-mail clients, but we can at least read all of our mail via the Web interface. It could have gone much worse.
UPDATE: Okay, now I got my e-mail working, but my “Bloglomerator” is busted. I’ll work on that tonight.
Just curious: why DH? (I’ve been there four years, but surely that can’t be a factor.)
No, your patronage of DreamHost wasn’t a factor, since I didn’t know that. But everyone I’ve talked to who is a DH customer — including some real top-shelf developers — told me that their service was superb. And I saw for myself that their features-per-dollars are very competitive. Unlimited MySQL databases! Unlimited subdomains! PHP version 5! I’m like the proverbial kid in a candy store, only with a blank check for unlimited candy.
My former host, whom I patronized from 2000 to 2005, charged me a nickel more per month than DreamHost, for what even they would have to admit is an inferior package. Even so, I would have continued to host with them out of loyalty — they are friendly and have referred design projects to me in the past — but they asked me nicely to take my business elsewhere. My sites were a terrible strain on their server.
(Mental note: Get larger DH button for front page.)
Sorry. If I had clicked your button first, would you have received a commission?
Um, well, uh, er, yes. (Not that it matters that much; I get enough in
kickbacksreferrals to pay a rather large chunk of my hosting bill already.)Actually, they’ve changed the procedure on those slightly, so I don’t even know if the button works anymore.