Lately I’ve been having tons of problems with my cheap web hosting service from DreamHost. When I first moved to DreamHost, I couldn’t believe the boundless disk space I was able to get for practically nothing. Of course, I allowed myself to forget the old adage about anything too good to be true.

I should’ve known something was up after their devastating outage, but the hosting was still cheap and moving is a major pain.

However, last week I logged into my shell account to work on a Ruby on Rails idea I had. It was a quick-and-dirty thing so I just worked over SSH within vim.

If you’re reading this, I’ve successfully transferred apocryph.org to DreamHost from CI Host. I pay about one fourth of what CI Host was charging me, and I get sysadmins who know their ass from a hole in the ground (note to CI Host: your security and DNS guys are utter fuckwits).

Currently I pay $588/yr ($50/mo) for 1U colo services with CI Host. The box I have in their colo facility has 250GB of storage, and a handful of VMs running apocryph.org and a few other things. It hosts my expansive image gallery, a few databases, etc.