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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Fri

Aug 12
2005

02:53Z

MGR: Big change.

(Though if we do it right, it should be barely noticeable.)

We're looking seriously at moving the Phoenyx to a hosting service. 
Bandwidth, as I've mentioned previously, is expensive out here, and we're 
starting to feel the pressure, mostly in our non-Phoenyx services (I'd 
like to have lots and lots of purty graphics for my business, for one 
thing).

We'd also like to spend more time building the Phoenyx as a community, and 
less time battling the little details of administering the site.

So we're looking at dreamhost.com, which will pretty much give us 
everything we have now, and then some.  Or so it appears from reading up 
on them.  Anybody heard anything negative about them?

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BruceHumphrey
Bruce Humphrey

Fri

Aug 12
2005

15:16Z

MGR: Big change.

As I don't really know the company, I did a simple google search for  
dreamhost opinion.
I found many pages, and almost all of them are good. I only managed to 
find 2 bad opinions in the first pages! That is a very high satisfaction 
ratio for a host.

Best wishes, Bruce

>(Though if we do it right, it should be barely noticeable.)
>
>We're looking seriously at moving the Phoenyx to a hosting service. 
>Bandwidth, as I've mentioned previously, is expensive out here, and we're 
>starting to feel the pressure, mostly in our non-Phoenyx services (I'd 
>like to have lots and lots of purty graphics for my business, for one 
>thing).
>
>We'd also like to spend more time building the Phoenyx as a community, and 
>less time battling the little details of administering the site.
>
>So we're looking at dreamhost.com, which will pretty much give us 
>everything we have now, and then some.  Or so it appears from reading up 
>on them.  Anybody heard anything negative about them?
>
>-- --------------------------------------------------------------
>Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx
>Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
>
>  
>
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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Fri

Aug 12
2005

15:25Z

MGR: Big change.

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Bruce Humphrey Ventura wrote:

BHV>As I don't really know the company, I did a simple google search for  
BHV>dreamhost opinion.
BHV>I found many pages, and almost all of them are good. I only managed to 
BHV>find 2 bad opinions in the first pages! That is a very high satisfaction 
BHV>ratio for a host.

Yeah, we've been googling and technoratiing and finding pretty much 
nothing but good news... they get dinged for their bittorrent policy, but 
they seem to be trying to get that worked out, and it doesn't affect *us* 
any.  They seem to be staying out of the blocklists, except SPEWS, and I 
don't see how any large web host could possibly stay out of that, so I'm 
not going to take that too seriously.  Heck, we're probably in SPEWS now.

At any rate, Carl signed us up last night, so we're on our 97-day trial 
period.  More bandwidth, and about $24/month cheaper than what we're doing 
now.  (Net, after you count the fact that we'll still have to have a 
non-business connection here.)

I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, though.
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