So far, DreamHost has been amazing. I can park an unlimited number of domains, with plenty of bandwidth to go around. I can do 95% of everything I need to do, from setting up domains and subdomains, to creating and managing SVN repositories, all with the admin panel. Web hosting seems to have come a long way since 2004.
The only complaint I’ve had with the server setup was the PHP upload limit. I installed wordTube (which I plan to overhaul) on Johnny’s blog, but DreamHost’s global limit of 7MB on shared hosting would make it difficult for Johnny to add videos on a whim, without having to teach him enough about FTP access to be dangerous.
So here’s how I worked around it…