Dreamhost was my first host. I was introduced to it by a fine young man named Anthony who runs Small Park .

Most of you who have been in the web world awhile know that Dreamhost offers a great package but has failed to deliver at times. I remember a few years ago, during the California energy shortages my sites seemed to never work like I wished they would.

I host my sites and a few clients on a dedicated server from Hostgator now. But I have always kept my Dreamhost account. Why you might ask?

Well Dreamhost has some benefits that surpass the rest.

Test sites!!!!!!

Thats right. You should ALWAYS build a test site before you deploy your actual site. I even keep backups of my live site on Dreamhost so I can try new features.

First of all, Dreamhost give you a load of diskspace and bandwidth. Are they overselling? Sure, but who isn’t. Plus as I said I am only using them for test sites.

You also get UNLIMITED FREE subdomain names. So if I want to run my latest Joomla test site. I simply create the suddomain, joomlatest.dreamhosters.com, and BAM, I have a place to test my new Joomla site or any other package I might want to try.

I like it, it works for me.

Don’t forget they increase your maximum bandwidth and disk space every month you host with them. Pretty nice.

Tags: Hosting, Joomla