On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:15 PM, peter green wrote: > I can't say i'm a fan of dreamhost. > > When we were starting the raspbian project we didn't want any nasty > surprise > bills so we went looking for unmetered hosting. Dreamhost's web hosting > was advertised as unlimited but when you actually read the small print ma= ny > of the activities that actually use a lot of bandwidth are forbidden. > Understandable given the price but still companies advertising unlimited > when their services are anything but. > > Anyway we then ended up going with a dreamhost dedicated server (which > is also unmetered and doesn't have a lot of the restrictions that the web > hosting service does). Since we were likely to be pushing a lot of traffi= c > we decided to remove apache and install nginx instead. A perfectly > reasonable thing to do on a dedicated server IMO. Somehow this broke > the weird and fragile boot/network setup scripts dreamhost were using > and on the next reboot the network didn't come up. Their support managed > to bring the machine up manually but the only long term fix they could > offer was a reinstall. > > Eventually we managed to fix the problem ourselves (turns out that a > symlink had somehow got removed when we stripped apache off) but > I was very glad when we got a donated server with serial console access > (thanks bytemark) and were able to say goodbye to dreamhost. > I always highly recommend getting a Xen VPS over shared hosting any day. And it's cheap - $7/month is what I pay. Dreamhost isn't using Xen, by the way, and they're expensive, so avoid them for VPS. And good choice going with Nginx. If you're using PHP, a good thing to do is to use PHP-FPM. The even better thing to do is to avoid PHP altogether and use Python and uwsgi= .. Second look: seems like you guys are Python, nice! --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .