Dreamhost and MODx users needed

I am thinking of moving to Dreamhost, and would love to hear the good stories and bad of MODx with Dreamhost.

I am curious about all aspects of Dreamhost with MODx, especially if you are hosting multiple sites on dreamhost.

Some say it’s good, some say it’s bad.. here’s the bad ones

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,4702.msg55400.html#msg55400
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,2034.msg15948.html#msg15948
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,13719.0.html

Thanks for the reply doze,

Who do you use? The most interesting thing that I was looking at was the multiple account (domain) hosting that was available. I have two sites for myself, one of which I am going to be transfering to MODx, the other is a wordpress site. Now I have one client, and a potential, bigger client, and would like to host them as well. I am on a limited budget too, which doesn’t help.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great!

For non-intensive sites and on a cheap budget, I have used http://www.lunarpages.com. I am sure they oversell their shared servers to get the price so cheap, but it does allow for the hosting of up to 10 sites on each account. Aside from a few hiccups at the very beginning, I have been relatively happy with them.

If your budget is tight and not getting tossed into a situation that will inevitably lead to resource starvation (you can’t control the other accounts on the box after all), you really should look into Virtual Servers at the minimum.

I finally broke down and got myself a VPS, especially since I manage three of my own sites, plus one or two that I’m managing on a volunteer basis. It is more expensive, but I am extremely happy with it so far. If you’re doing more than just "this is the cute thing my cat did", you really need to think about it.

A Shamless Plug but we offer multi domain accounts, and our servers love MODx

Wow, thanks for all of the great info everyone!

A couple of questions, and here is what I want to do. I am looking to formally start a design business from home, and have one client, with potential for several more that he is ready to refer.

I would like to offer the hosting as part of my package, plus that gives me better control, if the client wants it instead of hosting on their own and me just doing the redesign. I would like a hosting company that offers unlimited domains, but allows for me to control whether I am using MODx (custom php.ini and .htaccess) without affecting the other sites that I am hosting. I’m not sure if that is possible, or not.

I would also like (or dream) of a host that covers the domain registration automatically each year as part of the hosting package.

I am looking now at Host Monster and IX Web Hosting, and does anyone have any knowledge of them? They both ranked high according to customer surveys, etc.

http://www.hostmonster.com/

http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.dspmain

Thanks for all the great info!

Most hosting companies now handle domain registration for you with auto renew.

What you need to do is find a good host which you can could buy a starter package with and as you grow have the possibility to upgrade your account for more features or even to a reseller account.

With regards to custom php.ini most hosts have a global php.ini defined on the server and then in each customers domain area a user could upload their own php.ini which is specific for their domain only.

One thing to be careful when choosing a web hosting company is that there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth or 300GB disk space a lot of companies over sell what they have now and you may find later on down the line that your account is suspended for breaking their TOS or your site performance is slow due to the hoster over selling resources, I’ve read about a few hosts recently that suspended a user as he was uploading over 200gb of data who also got no money back.

Aaron.

I forgot to mention the benefit of getting a reseller account is that you could then provide your customers with their own logins to the control panel to manage their sites