Move to Dreamhost
If you are considering getting your own domain and server, now is the time to do it. The hosting company I’m using – Dreamhost – has quadrupled their storage and bandwidth! It was high before, but now it’s crazy.
With the cheapest plan, Level 1 – “Crazy Domain Insane”, for $7,95 a month (if you pay a year in advance) you get…
- 20 GB of storage. Yes, 20 GB!
- 1 TB of monthly traffic. I was looking at the public stats of Boingboing today, and so far this year they have used 332 GB in bandwidth on 5 days. The 31 days of January would then give about 2,3 TB of traffic. In other words: If you plan to get more than half the visitors of Boingboing, then 1 TB a month is too little. You would have to move to Level 4 “Strictly business”.
- Unlimited domains hosted. Which means that you can host as many domains as you like with your account. There’s one domain included in the price so you don’t need to pay extra for that the first year. If you want more, Yahoo Domains still sell upto five years domains for $2,99 a year for new customers (URL at end of article).
- 600 email accounts with POP, SMTP and IMAP
- One click install of WordPress. After you pay for the hosting, you enter the control panel on Dreamhost, choose “Goodies” and “WordPress”. Enter a few database names and passwords. 10 minutes later WordPress is good to go.
All this is the cheapest webhosting plan. With Level 2 you get twice the storage for $15,95 a month.
And now the coolest part: Every month Dreamhost gives you 160 MB more storage. You can post like crazy and still not be able to use what you get each month. And you get 12 GB of extra bandwidth each month too. Every month you’re a customer, you get more space and more bandwidth. Forever.
Reliability
I have been using Dreamhost for almost a year with no problems. Dreamhost lost the power to their data centre last autumn, and two of the generators failed. So many sites were offline for a several hours. Huge sites like Flickr and Del.icio.us, both owned by Yahoo, had more downtime than I had with my site on Dreamhost.
Ask me!
If you have any questions about this, I’m happy to answer them. All details on how to do that on the about page.
Yahoo Domains is here. Boingboing traffic stats here.
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