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by sgdesign 4987 days ago
I've been hosting a couple WordPress sites on PHPFog (http://phpfog.com) as well as DreamHost. For some reason DreamHost is faster, but the PHPFog UI is much nicer. Both have great support (DreamHosts' is 24/7 if I'm not mistaken) and relatively cheap.

That being said, once you have the sort of requirements that the original poster seems to have, I don't know if any of those companies would be suitable…
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jacques_chester 4987 days ago
Dreamhost is, like every shared hosting provider, hit-and-miss.

I used to host Club Troppo there. When it got slow they basically shrugged and said ... it's shared hosting, what did I expect for $8/month?

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the_bear 4987 days ago
I had the exact same experience, but I was paying for their VPS service. I believe it was over $30/month, and it went down all the time with very little traffic. Dreamhost is a tempting host for a new site because it's so easy to set up, but I think you save time and headaches in the long run starting with someone else.
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mmahemoff 4987 days ago
Are you on Dreamhost VPS or plain-old shared hosting?

I had to migrate my WordPress off Dreamhost shared hosting as it was too slow and blowing their CPU limits. That was around 2006 and I'm sure a lot has changed.

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sgdesign 4987 days ago
VPS. http://sachagreif.com runs on it and got to the top 5 of HN many times without any trouble (I'm using W3 Total Cache).

The only reason I'm thinking about switching away is that their control panel is a little messy, and they don't support Git deployment out of the box (although you can activate it via ssh, which is what I did).

It also feels faster than PHPFog for some reason, especially the WordPress admin. So overall, I'd say they're a pretty good option for budget hosting.

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imjared 4987 days ago
I wanted to use PHPFog for an ExpressionEngine site but deploys seemed to take an unreasonably long time. Their pseudo-git (CLI task `pf`) is also kind of silly.

If you're not going to be doing a lot of dev work and making a lot of commits, I'd recommend.

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ckeck 4987 days ago
You can actually use git natively for PHP Fog. The CLI tool is just an option to make things easier for some users.
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imjared 4987 days ago
Right, that's what I went to. I figured I'd give their tool a whirl but it's just an obfuscation of git. I guess it might be easier for some but it just gave me error after error.
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