The inner curmudgeon now has a new home. Up until now it has been hosted at PowWeb, but I have been quietly looking around for an alternative host that offers more in the way of nerdy goodness (eg. SSH/SFTP access, Subversion repository). To date I have resisted moving because PowWeb’s service is pretty good, even if it does lack tech candy. They also have a kick-ass user community forum. However, recently PowWeb has been bought out by “the largest hosting company you never heard of” (Endurance International) and I suspect that the service is likely to become even more vanilla. In my experience, when bean counters take over a business, it ends up just another pile of beans.
On top of that news, they futzed a mail server upgrade, so I’ve decided to test the DreamHost waters. They’re a little more expensive and their user community forums suck, but they have SSH/SFTP access, Subversion and they offer Ruby and Python, which I wasn’t particularly looking for, but might be nice to tinker with.
I’ve still got my dire beetles site and a couple of others at PowWeb and I will see how things go at DreamHost and PowWeb before deciding whether to jump ship entirely.
