[NTLUG:Discuss] Hosting Companies?

[Chris Cox]

Steve Baker wrote:
> Dennis Myhand wrote:
>> For those who use hosting companies, who do you use?  One of my students 
>> is looking to put a site online for a small business he is starting. 
>> Thanks, Dennis
>>   
> I'm a huge fan of dreamhost.com - I run about a half dozen websites out 
> of one account for one fee,   Never had a moment's trouble with them.  
> Linux based, one-click install of all of the common tools you need.  
> Very high disk and bandwidth limits (you'd have a hard time exceeding 
> them with a typical website I think), you can run your own CGI programs, 
> log in to the server via a shell account...you name it.

I'll go ahead and second that.... dreamhost does sell by overselling
their own capacity.  The good news, you won't exceed some limit and
get billed for it.

They are fairly reliable (you will see an outage from time to time).