https://nostuff.org/archive/tags/nostuff/ Recent content in Nostuff on nostuff.org archive | Chris Keene Hugo en-gb Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:07:49 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2007/welcome-back/ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:07:49 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2007/welcome-back/ <p>In August I signed up with Dreamhost.</p> <p>Until now I have used Freedom2surf’s web hosting service. I originally signed up with them as they seemed a good company (and still do, though now owned by pipex) and were cheap, £25 a year. When I first started using them they transferred my domain to them (it was all a bit new to me so I just presumed this was a required step) and their domain name costs were not cheap (£10). A few years later I wanted email as well (another £25), and the cost started going up. The service was stable, but I was started to need more. They offered just one database, not much when you are playing around with different software, such as Joomla, running WordPress and trying to experiment with your own silly web apps which require a DB, plus the quote for the database was tiny (10mb). Plus their web stats were crappy, and the log files were fiddly (kept for a few days on a secure website, no ftp and wget didn’t seem able to get them which made automating difficult, plus each file would download with the same filename by default).</p>