An Ode To Dreamhost (Shared Web Hosting Provider)

December 19th, 2004 I went to a website in search of a blog and I got: Get Hosted! Account Cancelled! The previous webpage was shutdown due to hosting issues. If you need hosting also here is some info.

August 26th, 2005 One of the strong security concerns in shared hosting environments is whether your sensitive data like MySQL server login/password or other login/password is actually safe from other users sharing the same web hosting machine. Few shared hosting providers do not provide telnet/ssh.

April 17th, 2006 WordPress.com suffered a hardware failure yesterday bringing all the hosted Wordpress sites down including famous blogs like scobelizer. The message from Matt: Once More We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.

July 12th, 2005 In this article I cover the hard questions to ask (checklist) while choosing a shared hosting provider. These questions are gathered over the years and through hard experience with different shared hosting providers.

August 3rd, 2005 According to Hosting-Review, an independent provider of web hosting reviews, the Top 10 Web Hosts (updated August 2005) are: BlueHost IX Web Hosting Powweb Lunarpages iPowerWeb Yahoo Hosting StartLogic Host Excellence Bluefish Hosting Site Build It Link

July 16th, 2007 Some of you have come to me saying WordPress recommends BlueHost and so why it isn't working well for them, their implicit expectation being that because WordPress recommends BlueHost, it must be the best for WordPress. That is far from truth.

March 30th, 2009 There are so many web hosting providers these days, all claiming to be the top of the line and with lucrative packages, you are bound to get confused. So we have started this series where we will review a web hosting provider a month based on our personal experiences.

July 5th, 2006 I have been looking for a unmanaged dedicated web hosting provider for the last 7 days or so. I performed sucks tests (search in Google for "xyz sucks"), went to web hosting forums, asked questions to the provider, analyzed their plans with a fine tooth comb.

February 10th, 2005 I had tried several web hosting providers before settling down. Recently I was checking to see if something better have come up.

July 13th, 2007 Any growing business has to eventually move to high end web hosting solutions like Colocation, Dedicated Web Hosting, Managed Hosting or Fully Outsourced solution. Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.

September 11th, 2009 Those of you planning to set up an online enterprise or already have one, know that there are different types of web hosting plans out there. Out of these two of the most widely used web hosting types are Shared web hosting and VPS hosting.

July 28th, 2006 Create a file in your htdocs directory (ask the location from your web hosting provider if you are not sure named test.php. Open the file in your favorite text editor and add the line: < ?php phpinfo() ?> After saving the file, open in your browser: http://[your host name]/test.php Note: Replace [your host name] with your actual host name.

August 12th, 2007 One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc. Unless you are a very big web service provider, chances are you are using dedicated servers from one or more of dedicated web hosting providers.

August 28th, 2006 I faced serious hacking attempts from a server owned by my dedicated web hosting provider, LayeredTech. More than 23, 000 brute force attempts were made on ssh server alone.

July 13th, 2007 I had several reports from users that the site is inaccessible from certain ISP's including but not limited to CableVision. I did everything to figure out what went wrong without much success.