On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com wrote:
Quoting Todd Hawley (celticdm@gmail.com):
Good point and most times that would be true. However, I've run into a couple folk who have more than one site hosted there and move other sites there "because they provide good service." In other words, they provide better service to users who have multiple accounts there than to those who only have one.
Very plausible. And/or those other users may have bought a higher grade of service costing more money.
Not sure if DH offers that but who knows.
Also, to be fair, a number of major hosting service such as Bluehost (don't know wbout Dreamhost) based their reputations on specifically hosting of Wordpress Web sites on shared hosts -- with other services like SMTP / mailing lists being (in the opinion of outside commenters) afterthoughts that are poorly run.
I used to maintain a site that ran WordPress, we migrated it to DH and they insisted they could only run WP if our URL included the Dreamhost name in the URL. It made for a very clunky and LONG URL to say the least. So yeah DH will run a WP site but only (at least at the time) if you gave "free advertising" to DH in the form of an extra long URL.
This would be consistent with what most modern Internet-hosting customers mean when they say 'site'.
Worpress is a vast and security-problematic blogging (etc.) engine written in the security-problematic PHP language, so there's quite a market niche describable as 'company that takes care of innumerable security meltdowns and other nuisances so you can use a cruddy Web app without devoting your life to it'. If a customer sees that as the most important thing a hosting company can do, then from that perspective a company whose SMTP / mailing list operations suck rocks might be utterly excellent.
Aha! I wondered why WP had so many security issues. Although from what I'd heard PHP was a nice scripting language and easy to learn. I had no idea it was prone to security issues.
-th