Subj : Re: Intel NUCs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Adept
Date : Wed Aug 16 2023 18:00:04

 pF>  Ad> (And, that said, I'm canceling my Dreamhost account toward the end of
 pF>  Ad> this month, so I won't see the change, anyway, for whatever differenc
 pF>  Ad> that makes to anything.)
 pF> 
 pF> Sorry to hear you're leaving - I've been a customer for coming on 10
 pF> years now. What prompted you to leave?

I've been a customer longer than that, I think.

That said, I decided to leave when they decided to stop supporting catchall e-mail addresses. And, for a while, were suggesting that people move stuff onto Google solutions, for e-mail.

But saying that's the reason seems odd to say, at this point, because it was years ago that they decided that, and I moved my e-mail to mxroute.

But out of laziness, since switching servers is a pain, I kept the account, and they would raise the prices, and eventually tell me that I needed to pay for more memory, because 300mb is basically not enough to run anything.

And then slowly took away things that had made stuff easier for me. E.g., one-click installs/upgrades of mediawiki.

Since they no longer had advantages over other servers, were restricted in a variety of ways that made it impossible to run certain things (e.g., my BBS, which I was/am running on a Vultr server), and honestly the service was largely a duplication of the other server I had...

Well, I've basically been wasting around $20/month because I hadn't moved everything over to a server that gave me more control and more resources, for less money.

I might end up upgrading my Vultr server a bit more, as needed, and I could use a server that's just for serving larger files / having more hard drive space, but basically Dreamhost was clearly no longer the best options for my needs.

And, at some point I probably would've had some level of loyalty to them, but that was before they got rid of catchall e-mails, and back when they had the weird monthly e-mails.

I probably wouldn't recommend Dreamhost, but I probably wouldn't recommend against them, either. If it works for you, they seem decent enough.

It _is_ a bit odd, though, as I think I've been using Dreamhost for most of my adult life.

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