Well, things aren’t going too badly with DreamHost, I’m sorting out all my domains and CGI, databases, PHP etc and things are looking good. When I get beaulebens.com across, then I will know things are good 🙂

UPDATE: Things are looking very good – .com.au is transferred properly and appears to have propagated pretty much everywhere, judging by the traffic on my old account. I’ll leave it there for a couple days longer and make sure I’ve migrated everything properly, then close my account at phpwebhosting.com.

Well, I think I’ve finally outgrown phpwebhosting.com as my host, so I’ve started the process of setting up my new account with DreamHost.com.

The reasons that I have decided on DreamHost are along these lines:

• UNIX Servers (personal requirement)
• SSH/Shell Access (crucial)
• .htaccess Editing (crucial)
• CGI/PHP (crucial)
• Ability to host multiple domains/subdomains (can only have 1 domain on phpwebhosting)
• IMAP Mail server – good benefit, since I am switching to web-based mail
• Good price – for me to host 10 domains there (6 properly + 4 mirroring) is $14.95 per month
• Good reputation – checked around and only heard good things. The usual criticism of their support, but hopefully I won’t be using it much, so it won’t matter 🙂
• FTP – I can add users who will have FTP access to certain areas on my servers, which will be good for sharing some space with friends
• crontabs – can edit them and set them when I want

So please bear with me over the next few days as things might get a little messy on this site (and related ones) while I am moving things around between this host and my new one.