hosting

Unlimited disk and transfer offer - going fast!

Drupalace — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:40:15 -0700

Bleah, this looks spammy, but I wanted to pass along something I noted with surprise: Poking around my hosting provider's site, I saw a special 11th birthday offer: The first 1,111 new customers to sign up with DreamHost get unlimited disk space and data transfer for hosting, forever.

I wouldn't be surprised if that "unlimited" came with a "within the limits of reasonable usage" clause. But that's pretty normal for any host, and for as little as $5.95/mo, it's sounding good to me. I've been happy with DreamHost for my sites (granted, they're not high-traffic sites calling for high-end hosting), and am particularly happy with their standard allowance of unlimited MySQL databases, a must for the Drupal experimenter.

Want to know more about DH, both good and bad? See my review.

DH link: Get Drupal-friendly hosting (with unlimited MySQL databses) at DreamHost

Disclaimer: Yes, that link generates a modest referral fee for this site, which helps pay me own bills. Use the promo code 49ER if you like, and $49 of that fee goes to you (as savings) instead of me. Go ahead and use it; if you're happy, I'll be happy too.

Oof! Hit by bad_httpd_conf error

Drupalace — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:25:02 -0800

Sorry to would-be readers who saw Site Temporarily Unavailable error id: "bad_httpd_conf" for an inderminate number of hours. "Now what?", I wailed...

Fortunately, this was easy to fix. It's not a Drupal thing (whew!), as spidersilk points out here. It's a glitch chez Dreamhost, which the ISP addresses in their support wiki. Calling up and re-setting my domain hosting settings fixed things within minutes.

Hosting for Your Drupal Creations

Drupalace — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:22:40 -0700

If you're making web sites, you need a server to dish up those sites. You need hosting.

For anyone pondering the difficult choice of hosting services, allow me to write a few words on those that I've used with Drupal. Some caveats for you to keep in mind:

a) I'm only writing about those I've used, and make no claims that they're the best out there.
b) I'm pretty positive on both (would I keep using them if I weren't?). You should, of course, look for additional reviews, good and bad, before jumping into a big contract with either.
c) I'm starting this article smallish, and will add more observations and data as I come across them. Check back for updates!

Hosting Deals!

Drupalace — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:54:27 -0700

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