That was quick.

The site is now back from a short stay at Site5. The boost in speed was definitely a plus, but losing flexibility in terms of compiling source via SSH is something I’‘m not willing to give up. cPanel was also starting to shit me. I don’t like the way subdomains/pointers are created on the file system. Having them as a subdirectory of the primary domain is really very annoying.

I much prefer DreamHost’s architecture of having each sub-/domain web root in it’‘s own directory under the user root. If you ever wanted to host just 1 website per account, then cPanel’‘s way of doing things might work well for you, but it really doesn’‘t work well for me. I suppose that’‘s what the MultiSite functionality is for, but I really hate having each site under a different user login. At DreamHost, I can access all my sites using my main account login if I wish.

I’ve been with DreamHost since I quit the free web hosting game and Site5 is the only other host I’‘ve tried. Maybe the next step from DreamHost is getting VPS hosting, but I really don’t have time to be patching my webserver every time a fix comes out. Maybe I’ll just have to learn to manage my projects better.