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Blog move to Dreamhost now finalized
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: Dreamhost, hosting, weblog.
My various online bits are now living at Dreamhost. It took only a few minutes to install my stuff, copy over the files, and get up and running. It’s taken a bit longer to have DNS changes propagate, but I think that process is pretty much over now. Wordpress seems pretty happy there, and I’ve installed copies of Drupal, Mediawiki and Lace (the cool ajax chat app), as well as a Quicktime streaming server and Jabber server. The last two were autoinstalls, so I just flicked them on to see what they did. Actually, everything but Lace could have been automatically installed, with subdomains and databases created automatically, but I opted to do the manual install because I already have copies of the apps configured.
So far, things seem to be working pretty well. They give an insane amount of disk space (20 GB to use as I need) and monthly bandwidth (1 TB/month, plus an extra 8 GB added each week), as well as SSH and FTP access.
I’m looking forward to playing around with Rails a bit, and have a place to host it.
The Dreamhost support team is also pretty darned responsive. I’ve had to contact them twice (once when their account creation form barfed on the apostrophe in my name, and once when the stats weren’t being displayed). Very helpful, those Dreamhost folks. They also have 2 blogs that they use to communicate about status and other stuff. The off-site dreamhoststatus.com blog is a good way to keep up on pending changes or outtages. And their general blog is just plain entertaining - with a category dedicated to rants! It’s good to see a decade-old hosting company that’s grown rather large still be able to have a sense of humour.
Update: One of the things I’m loving about hosting at Dreamhost is that backups are trivial. I have a script in my hosted account that I can trigger via SSH, and it will rsync my entire home directory (including all files needed to host my domain and any subdomains) to my desktop box on campus for backup. And, because rsync is so cool, it only takes a few seconds, since only changed files are sent. So, I can make sure all of my 300+MB of files are backed up in about 10 seconds. Add a scripted mysqldump into the mix, and all data backups are up to date as well.
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I’ve been very happy with them. They helped me set up a WordPress MU install on a wildcard DNS and a server alias in the Apache httpd.conf. When I signed up they had a deal where my bw and disk space grow each week. Now I am at 1.1 TB/month and 22 GB. I use less than 1% of each.
As you’ve just completed the move, you’ll probably be able to say off the top of your head which plugin lets you post Flickr Favs in your posts. I have flickrRSS but that doesn’t seem to do it. I also have Flickr Photo Album which isn’t it either. I can’t get FAlbum to work. No idea why. I think I just don’t understand what it is supposed to do. All of this is on http://blog.breitenbucher.net and for now I am using lightbox to manually create albums in posts.
Jon - yeah, I’m amazed at how well everything runs, and how they’ve already got everything I need set up. Almost like they’ve been doing this for 10 years or something
The Flickr Favs posts aren’t done with a plugin per se (well, a plugin is involved, but doesn’t create the Fav mosaics). I use FD’s Flickr Toys Mosaic Maker - feed it a username, number/size of images, and it will automagically create a mosaic. It will even publish the mosaic image to you Flickr account if you let it. After it does that, I just place the Flickr image in my blog post. Takes maybe 2 minutes for the whole process.
FAlbum is just a way to integrate your Flickr photos within your blog - without having to go to Flickr. It’s really just an optional thing, since sending someone to Flickr.com would do basically the same thing, but with Flickr’s chrome etc…
I just got several domains set up on HostGator and I think I’m experiencing buyer’s remorse. Your Dreamhost set up sounds like, well, a dream.
glad you’ve moved happily. i’ve only been unhappy (ish) once with Dreamhost. they have been above average in terms of helpfulness and responsiveness, and i’ve always liked their attitude. check out their voting/token system for requesting new features when you get a chance. neato.
There’s also the Unofficial DreamHost Blog. Well worth a visit…
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