Moving Away from Dreamhost
Six years ago, I set up an account on Dreamhost. I have nothing against Dreamhost. They have served me well over the years. I paid $10.95 per month and I got basic hosting.
Initially, I used Dreamhost for a personal website to host Gallery (of which Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress was a contributor). I also used Dreamhost for email until Google Apps came out.
One of my goals was to build some PHP applications and host them on Dreamhost. I built one. In 2004, I used the Fusebox framework to build a Flickr/Shutterfly mashup. You could browse your photos and friends’ photos then add them to a Shutterfly shopping cart. This was before Flickr supported authentication as part of their API.
Over the years, I’ve hosted several blogs. I’d write a dozen, or so, blog entries then delete my bog and start over. I was never committed to blogging. I’m now hosting my blog on Tumblr.
I even hosted a few sites for friends.
In 2007, I started playing with Rails and prototyped an idea. I was even able to host it on Dreamhost without any issues. Granted, the site never went live for mass consumption.
I’m getting back to developing with Rails, and quiet frankly, Heroku is a better platform for launching and hosting Rails applications. I’m still using Dreamhost for registrations and DNS entries.
