_____/ On Wed 12 Oct 2005 16:07:27 BST, [Bruce Alderson] wrote : \_____
I personally recommend http://www.dreamhost.com/ Very reasonable, PHP,
MySQL, full ssh access.
I rarely require SSH access. SSH is merely a luxury that one can adapt to by
changing a few habits e.g. using command-line rather than front-ends to file
management. The last thing I want to do is move away from hosts that
served me
so well with approximately 99.9% uptime, even now that I suffer the spam
equivalent of the Slashdot Effect on a daily basis.
I think I once read about Dreamhost.com banning a user from establishment of
database connections as he was hammering it too hard. That sounds
incompetent
to me as they appeared to have not preceded the move with a gentle warning.
That's the problem with large 'meat market' companies that perceive their
clients as 'little people'.
That's certainly not their standard practice, and if it did happen
it's more likely that the user was not telling the whole story. I've
hosted with dozens of hosts over the last ten years, and dreamhost is
easily the most friendly.
As in many circumstances, I hear what you say about denial of crucial
facts and
I agree. Like one of these "my password doesn't work, so it MUST be
YOUR fault"
type-of-situations. Or a "by the way, I re-installed my operating system
yesterday. Can THAT be why VPN no longer works, as opposed to a problem
at your
end?" situation.
I've had several instances of zombied processes, and a few
slashdottings (well, boingboingings) on my own sites. Dreamhost
didn't punish me for the events, rather they forgave the high
bandwidth on those days (saving me hundreds of dollars). A good
host, by my measure.
I'm not sure I'd call ssh a luxury either. As a developer (often of
web applications), tools like scp, and rsync are minimally required
for keeping large sites synchronized. Having tools like CVS, too,
make the life of a web dev really quite nice. Try to live without
those, with only FTP, SMB or web forms? You would be wasting a lot
of time incrementally updating by hand (or uploading the whole damned
thing).
I guess it depends on the nature of the site. gFTP and Konqueror multi-thread
FTP traffic so they are not too bad as an SCP alternative. CVS is intended to
serve sites whose purpose in unorthodox, unless the host is not a /Web/
host or
content is tightly-correlated to programming or documentation. I run CVS and
MATLAB on one such Web server which I SSH to, but it's only accessible to the
Faculty and is located in the server room a few metres to my left. Such
servers
are prone to breakage and are unlikely to be maintained by or be
considered good
business to Web hosts (for a reasonable price). It's a niche.
Roy
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