WHY I USE DREAMHOST
aside is hosted by Dreamhost and highly recommends Dreamhost for your own web hosting needs. Other studio aside related websites / blogs hosted on DreamHost are :
- online business networking blog
- the aside innovation blog
- nainaredhu.com
- studioaside.com
- client website : www.vimawa.com
- client blog : www.vimawa.com/blog
- client website : www.theessence.in
Here are a few reasons WHY:
- Their most basic plans have 24-hour technical support over e-mail.
- There’s a web-based account control panel [ which lets you use all those numerous features! ]
- There’s a Jabber chat server.
- Disk storage, when you sign-up = 20 GB [ which increases by 160 MB every week ].
- Monthly bandwidth, when you sign-up = 1 TB [ which increases by 8 GB every week - so if your website becomes instantly famous, you don't need to worry about bandwidth if you've been a long-standing DreamHost customer! ]
- Unlimited MySQL Databases.
- 3000 e-mail accounts with POP / IMAP
- 75 Shell / FTP users
- E-mail has POP / SMTP Access, IMAP Access, Web-Based Email Access, Procmail Mail Filtering, Spam Filtering on their famous SpamAssassin, unlimited Email Addresses (Aliases), unlimited Announcement Lists and unlimited Discussion Lists!
- Domains have : one Free Domain Registration (A $9.95 Value!), Domain WHOIS Privacy, unilmited Domains Hosted, unlimited Subdomains Hosted, unlimited Domains Forwarded/Mirrored and Custom DNS!
- Programming features include : PHP4 Support, PHP5 Support ,Full Unix Shell, Crontab Access Full, CGI Access, Ruby On Rails, Canned CGI Scripts, Server Side Includes (SSI), CVS Repository and Subversion Repository (SVN).
- MORE advanced features include : Enhanced Web Security, WebDAV Snapshot, Data Backup Daily, Access Statistics, Access to raw log files, Banner-Free DreamBook account, Passworded Directories (.htaccess), FrontPage Extensions, RealAudio and Video (http stream), Quicktime Streaming AND my favorite – One-Click Software Installs including WordPress, phpBB, Advanced Poll, ZenCart, MediaWiki, Joomla, Gallery, WebCalendar. [ This means that with just ONE-CLICK - even a newbie can install a WordPress blog on ther server/website - they can also do that if they need a CMS or if they need an E-Commerce website - just one click to lift-off! ]
PHEW! And these are features for the BASIC accounts!
And they have a 97-day money-back guarantee!
And they have a referral scheme – 10% of direct referral and 5% of secondary. [ It's a huge bonus considering the features, prices and service! ].
And they give you a great laugh with their monthly newsletter too!
To understand what their features mean, you can check out their extensive feature list glossary.
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