Fully Migrated to Slicehost
Thanks to the amazingly awesome Dan Choi of betahouse the blog has undergone some major changes in the past month including a full migration to Slicehost.
Dan helped me massively customize the workflow on this theme, even though he had never really done much PHP work prior. He’s basically a genius when it comes to picking up things almost instantly. We now have 4 categories and a 4-up splash box on the front that shows the most recent post in each category. If you’re interested in how we did it… umm, I’ll have to dig around a bit (I could send you the PHP files if you want) as I only partially know what he did. Also we have feedburner RSS feeds for every category (although everyone is only subscribing to the main feed which is just fine with me).
I’m also on Slicehost now. Slicehost (as you may notice) is at least 4x as fast as Dreamhost. Ok, sure it costs about 2x as much, but also it has significantly better uptime and doesn’t oversell. Plus you can easily expand your slice. At some point it’s probably best to take your image to EC2 if you expand a ton, but for hosting of stuff like this blog it is awesome. Plus I don’t need a fancy cPanel, as I actually have full SSH access. They tell you exactly what you get. At most there are 64 clients on a 4-core 16gb server. Never more, likely less.
I feel now I can safely say: I never would recommend Dreamhost to anyone for any reason. It is horrible and the tech support is non-existent. Stay away. I have warned you. I do wish I had done some benchmarking before I moved (suppose I still can), but lets just say this… dreamhost sucks
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