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This web hosting review was started by aquagrrl on 2009-07-19 13:45:37:

I’m a web designer and I have one hosting account on DreamHost that I use for all sorts of side projects. Nothing big, just a few blogs, test sites, ideas that may or may not come to fruition, etc . . . so I like the flexibility of unlimited domains/mysql etc. . . but I haven’t been too happy with their service as of late. I’m more than happy to pay more for a reliable hosting provider, but it has to have certain features, namely:

unlimited host domains/unlimited mysql (Up to diskspace quota, obviously)
ssh
one-click installs for popular software, definitely wordpress
good quality support
good uptime
decent space/bandwidth allocations.
automatic backups of files and mysql

I looked at Cartika, and they seem like a good choice in terms of stability and support, but they don’t offer ssh and the don’t have one click in-stalls for word press. The one click install is not a deal breaker, but the lack of ssh is. Media Temple sounded good, but there are a lot of reviews about poor server response time and outages.

I thought about a vps, but I think its more work than I want to invest. I’ve admined linux servers before, but I honestly don’t want to have that extra work, even on a managed vps (as I understand it, there is extra work even on managed vps).

Any recommendations would be great.

edit: oh yeah, my budget is $20 - $30/mo. Would prefer $20, but go up to $30 if it was the right service.

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