I have switched my hosting provider from Focushub to Dreamhost. They are currently promoting 20GB of disk space and 1TB of bandwidth monthly for about USD 8 if you sign up for two years. Now before you do that, I recommend to do Google Search for Dreamhost promo code. Some of the code will give you further discount up to USD 97. Apparently, Dreamhost does encourage viral marketing through their referral program. The referrer could get 10% of everything their referrals spend on hosting, or get a $97 one-time payment. To attract people, the referrer could create a promo code that will give a one-time discount.
Commission and rewards aside, migrating to a new hosting provider is quite an experience. I need to get used to new web management console, from de-facto standard CPanel to a custom-built Dreamhost panel. Dreamhost offers a basic management console that allows you to manage billings, domains, users, mails, goodies (installer), status and supports. It’s pretty easy to use and more accessible via the Web than CPanel because Dreamhost uses standard Web port. Apart from basic web hosting features like PHP, FTP and Mail, Dreamhost also supports Ruby on Rail and provides Subversion (for versioning). Unfortunately, Dreamhost one-click install feature is not as impressive as CPanel’s Fantastico, because it has less variety of application available. It does offer solid application such as Wordpress (Dreamhost is recommended by Wordpress) and MediaWiki (which is used to run Wikipedia).
Because of the way Dreamhost handles database, I faced initial problem of setting them up. I need to create a globally unique name across Dreamhost servers unlike database management in CPanel (I wasted some of the good name because I made some errors). Anyway, I managed to install Wordpress quite easily. The next thing that I have to do is to update dns of my domain to the Dreamhost nameserver. It takes about one day before the domain to begin to work. Finally, I have to migrate my old blog content to the new one
Since there isn’t migration feature in Wordpress, I have to create and use backup from my old MySQL database and then import it in the new database. I then have to run update database script to upgrade the old database structure to the new one (I happened to find that feature by coincident – it is not that obvious). Well after a few trial and error, I’m now a proud user of Wordpress 2.0.1!
Well, if you’re considering to use Dreamhost you can use my Dreamhost promo code: “IWANT100PERCENT” for full $97 discount or you might want to consider ”IMNICETOALBERT” that will give me 10 bucks comission. If you do not need the discount, you can have me as referral (use alberthardy as your referral) then I’ll get a 10% commission each month 