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Dreamhost PS: Web Hosting for Bloggers
A lot of bloggers underestimate that lie in their path to blogging stardom. You can spend hours creating killer content for your blog, but if you do not choose the right web host for your blog, there is a good chance your blog could be down when your visitors come looking for information. Let me tell you that nothing turns me off than going to a website that is too slow or completely down. Many bloggers get started with free hosting services or cheap shared hosting. In reality, you should always plan on purchasing a premium web hosting service to your blog once you have hit 5-10K unique visitors per month. The last thing you want to do is negate your blog’s momentum by going with one of those cheap web hosts.
I personally started my blogs on one of those shared hosting services. I was paying $4 a month for my hosting and was happy with the service. But once I started pulling 15K a month, I realized my site was going down on a consistent basis. At first I thought it was a software issue. I got rid of most of my plug-ins and adopted lighter themes. I even stopped going overboard with images. But nothing worked. Finally, I realized the problem was my hosting and not my website. That’s why I switched to Dreamhost PS. Dreamhost PS is web hosting on demand. In essence, you can decide how much you want to pay every month and how much resources you want use on a monthly basis. So you can start cheap and add more resources as soon as you blog goes viral. That way you don’t end up spending $500 a month right away with your own dedicated service. Don’t get me wrong. If you have a website that gets 1M hits a month, it’s better to go with private hosting, but you can buy a lot of time with an on-demand web hosting service such as Dreamhost PS.
What I love about Dreamhost PS is that it lets me know exactly how much memory and CPU power I am using on a daily basis, allowing me to easily figure out how much money I need to invest in my hosting. I can also use MySQL PS to get better performance from my DBs as well. Finally, Dreamhost PS lets me make a lot of changes to my PHP and Apache configuration that I couldn’t with my shared hosting account.
Should you go with Dreamhost PS?
I have worked with 4 other web hosts, and the only one that I can truly recommend is Dreamhost PS. It’s my current web host, and it has been for a while. The support that you get from the folks behind Dreamhost is superb, and the service is reliable. Best of all, you get a lot of discounts and goodies with each hosting account that makes going with Dreamhost a no-brainer. Are there better hosts out there? I can’t tell as I haven’t had to search for one in years.
