JBot Mania

One of my biggest agita decisions is my web hosting service. I have had SO many problems in the past with providers - usually email related, which is usually what I care about most.  I’m always hesitant to stick with one host or to sign up for an entire year because I have had such problems and it just becomes money down the drain.

Right now, this blog is hosted on DreamHost and actually was an offshoot of a little experiment with cheap hosting (DreamHost has fabulous deals with referrals and such). For $20 for the first year, I thought, “Why not?”.

I have yet to use DreamHost for any email accounts at all, much less accounts of value to me. Over the summer I started getting all these notices about email servers being down, other servers being down, etc. etc. I thought, “Thank God I don’t use them for email. Oh well, $20 for a year of playing around isn’t so bad.”

I became a bit skeptical of DreamHost… but I did like their features.

Well, I wasn’t the only one it seems, and here is a pretty good blog entry from someone who had started to reconsider DreamHost, as well, and it includes a link to a very open entry on the DreamHost blog that explains alot of what happened this summer. It’s worth a read, especially if you’re considering DreamHost. If nothing else, you can see that they are, in fact, human and certainly not fly by night. I’m not sure if I am ready to make the plunge to an email address with them that I depend on, but we’ll see. Every leap of faith starts with one step… or at least I think that’s what the bumper sticker said.