As you will likely know, I've changed hosts for the first time since the debut of this site in April 2010. My new host is a bit more expensive than the standard package I got with my last host, but I get a premium of extra features with the new hosting package.
The new site host has so many things that the previous did not have that it would take forever to post about them all. The key features however have been outlined below:
- PHP (yes, my previous host had this too)
- MySQL (same story here) but I can have as many databases as I wanted
- Ruby On Rails (something I want to learn) and Ruby Gems
- Perl (again something I want to learn)
- JSP (I'm not really that interested in anything related to that coffee bean)
- SFTP (basically a much more secure FTP using SSH)
- Control over Apache server handlers (excellent feature!)
- SSL support
- Multiple database accounts (higher security)
- Direct FTP from PC or Mac without the need for an FTP client (my previous host offered this, but it was one way only, you could download a copy of files and have to upload them, this way it works like a drive on my computer, so I can update straight to the server and the operating system does the rest.)
- HotLink Protection! (haha, you can't just HotLink my CSS anymore! And it works beautifully, just try to navigate to my CSS files such as my template).
- A built in image manager to scale down images etc.
- Quick Joomla, WordPress, phpBB creation (I may bring back phpBB in the future, by the way)
- Better control over the subdomains on the site
- Plus unlimited bandwidth
- And unlimited storage vs 30GB at the same price with my previous host
- 6 domains rather than one.
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