So, let's look at the prospective hosting companies I am considering signing up with. So let's look at each of them in pairs (TD for TextDrive, DH for DreamHost).
Price/month: $12 (TD), $10 (DH)
Disk space: 1 GiB (TD), 20 GB w/ an increase of 160 MB/week (DH). Bonus points, though, to TD for using gibibyte over gigabyte and thus eliminating a possible ambiguity.
Bandwidth: 3 GiB (TD), 1 TB w/ a weekly increase of 20 GB (DH).
Databases: 6 (TD), unlimited MySQL (DH). TD does allow Postgres, SQLite, and Berkeley.
SSH support: yes
Subversion: yes for both. Bonus to TD for having instructions on both https and svn+ssh access along with instructions on doing both. DH, though, tells you only svn+ssh. TD tells you how to create multiple users for svn over https while DH tells you for shell accounts. Now normally I would just say that as long as TD supports multiple shell users (which it seems to) I would be fine, but since svn saves your password locally either access is fine. TD also supports SVK, Darcs, Monotone, and Arch (DH might, but they don't mention it directly).
Support: knowledge base, forum (TD), knowledge base, forum, wiki (DH). DH's wiki is not publicly listed, though, as support.
Python support: direct mention along with Django (TD), none specific (DH). DH does support Python, though, and is mentioned in their wiki how to install something like Django. TextDrive, though, has a full-blown manual.
I am seriously leaning towards TextDrive. Why? Even though DreamHost offers bigger numbers in terms of specs at a cheaper cost, TextDrive seems to really support Python well. Plus they are smart enough not to support Java on any shared boxes. =)
I think I am going to mull this over for a little while before I make a final decision.
2 comments:
I have accounts at both. I VC3 lifetime account at TextDrive and crazy domain insane at Dreamhost. Both are very fine hosting companies. I recently moved a lot of my sites from TextDrive to DreamHost after a lot of downtime on my server. However the problems seem to be under control and I want to move my main site back. They're now owned but Joyent and I feel this will solve a lot of their issues.
I recomend you read this guys article about the two of them.
http://practicalmadness.com/2006/01/dreamhosts_got_all_the_bomb_we
I am also looking for a good python host (for either a Django or TurboGears project, I haven't yet made up my mind). I am currently hosting with Site5.com but I am not too sure about their python support or interest (they have recently become born-again RubyOnRailers).
I've got http://python-hosting.com at the top of my short list. Have you considered them?
They seem to match most of your requirements (plus they offer a default install of Trac with SVN for each domain/website that you host with them).
I am just not sure whether they have a decent customer forum/knowledgebase area (nothing on the public side anyway).
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