>> 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 m= any >> 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 we= b >> hosting service does). Since we were likely to be pushing a lot of traff= ic >> 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 uwsg= i. > >Second look: seems like you guys are Python, nice! I've read a lot =A0of suggestions about hostings. =A0Altough I haven't test= ed any of the mentioned here I've tested some hostings in the past and alth= ough all offer lot of terabytes, or ram or max traffic allowed. =A0But what= about the transfer rate?=A0 All the sort of cheap hosting I've tested are slow, you have a page and it = is downloaded too slow. =A0I assume this is because the server(s) all share= a same uplink connection. I know this are big number rules.. and the host do have to earn money, etc.= =A0But I found that the monthly transfers are never reached. =A0One can th= ink "ok, you just don't have enough visitors" and that is true. =A0But even= if having just ONE visitor, the page browses slowly. =A0It doesn't matter = if it is a page based on Joomla, Drupal or a plain HTML one. =A0it browses = slowly. =A0 Can someone add to the excellent description of the storage, ssh, LAMP prei= nstalled or virtualization possibilities how do you 'feel' the transfer rat= e?=A0 Thanks in Advance Mauricio --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .