Posts Tagged hosting
My state of VPSes
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal, Sysadmin on November 2, 2014
The VPS market is really really interesting to watch. Maybe it’s just me, but the idea of being able to get a year of a decent system for the price of a pizza is fascinating – and somewhat dangerous to my wallet. At my peak, I had 4 VPSes running at the same time – and […]
Cheap hosting
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on August 27, 2012
I’ve perpetually been on the lookout for cheap hosting. Price’s the reason I’ve been hosting my stuff with Dreamhost for the past few years (going on 6 years!), and is the reason I’m going to be taking advantage of MaxCDN’s ‘free’ 1TB of CDN bandwidth this week. (Reasoing being that I don’t have much use […]
Cloudflare/Dreamhost: Least surprise, maximum confusion indeed.
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on April 8, 2012
tl;dr – In summary Dreamhost isn’t pointing domain nameservers at Cloudflare. They’re using an system of CNAMEs to redirect people to Cloudflare, hence the necessity of “Add WWW”. Dreamhost is still your nameserver. If you’re using Cloudflare and you’re moving back to Dreamhost, or were using Cloudflare, change your nameservers back to ns1.dreamhost.com and ns2.dreamhost.com to keep […]