Raging Tech has been hosted by a few different web hosting companies through its various incarnations and different names it’s gone by over the years. I did a lot of monthly web hosting plans at different companies and gotten various levels of customer service at each one that were almost always below par. The last host I used before my current host, got hacked 3 times and I said “That’s it. I’m done with you,” and wiped the dust off my feet at the doorstep on my way out.
My college cohort Levi cued me in to a deal a company called Dreamhost was having for their birthday celebration, then their 7th year of operation. I signed up for their “Crazy Domain Insane” package for a year for just $7.77! The yearly plan was $119, but my first year was going to be just a little under 8 bucks. For that I got a huge amount of space to store my web site, unlimited domains and subdomains, and all the web site technologies I needed to do fun things with my blog and various other web sites. My friend Levi’s site was speedy and reliable and from the service description I got all the bells and whistles of PHP, CGI, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, cron jobs, and more. Plus they had a nifty one-click installer thing that let me install WordPress and more without a lot of annoying FTP and permissions work.
That was December 21st, 2004. 5 years later, and I’m still a happy Dreamhost customer. Now they offer one-click installs in both “easy mode” (they manage what plugins, themes, and etc. are available for you) and “advanced mode” (you’re more or less in control). You get easy integration of your domain with Google Apps for Your Domain services like G-mail, Calendar, and Docs. You can easily install a blog, shopping cart, family tree software, online courseware systems, forums / bulletin boards, and more without much effort at all. New accounts get UNLIMITED storage and UNLIMITED Bandwidth for playing! Plus Quicktime streaming services and your own Jabber server!
Even if you don’t need all of that, you don’t have to use it – the basic web hosting abilities of Dreamhost to do even simple sites can’t be beat for the price during their birthday sale – over 92% off their yearly hosting price – use Promo Code “777” when signing up to get the special price of $9.24 for one whole year of web hosting! Be sure to mention dave.myers@ragingtech.com referred you when signing up, I’d appreciate it.
Birthday sale ends TOMORROW at midnight PST, so get on it before the offer is GONE for this year!