Perhaps if you focused a little more on service and a little less on democracy, you wouldn’t have alienated so many people with unresolved issues.

No, seriously, now that I work on other people’s sites, I have learned just how slooooooow and passive aggressive some hosts can be about, well, stupid little things. My answer: getchoo a Dreamhost setup and leave that no-good husba–I mean host–of yours.

I wish you had a job opening for something I’m qualified for!

Rock on!

I agree with 4. Al. Come to The Netherlands or anyway built a datacenter there. Eventually the quakes will get ya!

Cheers HansNL

@dwr: I don’t think Google is that bad, actually I think it’s a great place to work, though I’ve never worked there, but it does seem fun to me..

Kids + Photography + blatant 80’s gawky look = priceless.

~A teacher that scopes around for the “smart looking” kids.
…(those kids on the site don’t look too promising, but oh well…)

::wink::

Sara,

Take into account what VPS provides with DH vs. the competition.
I know that you can possibly get more “measurable” product for the dollar with a VPS host. However I choose to stay with DH because their PS affords me the ability to have the ease of use of private hosting with the ‘burstability’ of a VPS.
I on occasion use Slice Host accounts for certain tasks, but nothing beats the ‘easy’ way of doing things at the DH Panel.
When I break something at Slice Host I have to figure out wtf I did. At DH, I can’t break stuff. From a straight value:features perspective it doesn’t make sense. But, from a value:benefits perspective it’s a good investment for me.

A little about how I use PS. I have both a PS and MySQLPS “server”. The MySQL is set as low as it can go and the PS is at about 700 (though I could probably push it down to 500). It’s all php/perl stuff. Most of it written by me (so likely horribly inefficient/buggy/wrong) and of course the obligatory installations of Wordpress and a few others OSey scripts (not just one-click installs). What could I get for that expense at slicehost? It looks to me about twice as much RAM (at least). However, nowhere near the ease of use.
The reality is that the ignorant pay more (ever charge a friend to host their “webpage”). I’m not ignorant of the price difference, I am ignorant of how to make slicehost as easy to use as DH.
I’m actually pretty happy with my monthly bill from DH (previous sentence not applicable to DH employees).
:)

Just my .02 on the recent PS price blog-spam here.