I couldn’t very well host a site on my puny cable connection with my dual PIII 450 Linux box. I love my little box and I’m sure it had the power to host the limited views the site would get, but I couldn’t spare the upload bandwidth. I found that most sites offering cheap webhosting were just that. Cheap web hosting. You had to pay a lot extra to get any additional features. What I really wanted was shell access. Shell access costs money, lots of it. Any place that even offered shell access was insanely expensive for the amount of bandwidth and disk space that was available. Then there was CPU usage restrictions….

Then I found DreamHost. They offered more disk space, more bandwidth, and more features than I could ever ask for. Dreamhost lets me host an unlimited number of websites and I can use it for all my programming projects. I just log in and write some Perl scripts, compile some C code, etc. I can write some code on my computer and use their SQL databases so I can test my programs from any computer without setting up MySQL on everything. It’s great.

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