Re: hosting recommendations?

["Tony Butler" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Alex Mon. says, getting ssh access tends to be a rarity these days -
even jailshell is not all that secure.

> I use dreamhost.com.  It can be really cheap to do if you have a
'discount
> code'. They support SSH2 with sftp and scp. And you get a free .com
domain
> if you want.

How do you find them support/reliability wise?
They have to be overselling with things like this:

> Disk Storage at signup - DOUBLED!   2400 MB to 4800 MB
>      Automatically Increases Weekly By:   40 MB
> Monthly Bandwidth   120 GB
>      Automatically Increases Weekly By:   1 GB

and with that in mind, why would you do this:
>Account Add-Ons
>Additional Disk Space / 10MB   $1/mo
>Additional Monthly Bandwidth / 1 GB   $1

If you seem to get an additional 160MB/month of diskspace free per month
plus 4Gb bandwidth/month free?

If this recommendation was not coming from an existing client/member of
the list, I would say steer clear because with so much for so little,
something's gotta give - and that usually means support and/or
performance.

cheers,

T.