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If you can read this, then your ISP's DNS has updated to reflect my hosting changes. Congratulations! You have probably read about Dreamhost's gigantic fuck-up at the top of the year, through which they accidentally billed their customers for $7.5 million in erroneous charges. Thankfully I had my credit card on file and not my debit card, or I would have gone through overdraft hell. So while this didn't really affect me that much financially, I have to say that I found their official response to this situation to be rather unprofessional. Next time, guys, it might be a good idea to leave out the picture of Homer Simpson and the screengrab from Office Space...
So I decided to shop around a bit. At first, it seemed like I actually had a pretty good deal at Dreamhost, paying $9.95 monthly. Most other hosts that had been recommended to me have yearly billing cycles, which didn't really appeal to me. Also, my needs are rather meager, so I don't need 300 gigs of (oversold) bandwidth.
This is where my new host comes in. There's no monthly fee, they just bill based on usage. Sort of like the prepaid phone of web hosting world? Except actually a value, and maybe not a scam? It came highly recommended by anonymous goons, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Based on my usage records at Dreamhost I should expect to pay less than $2.00 monthly, which suits my needs just fine.
Thus concludes this scintillating coverage of the current status of my web hosting. I now return you to wall-to-wall coverage of Heath Ledger's death, already in progress.
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