I have switched web hosts as of today from Axishost to Dreamhost. Axishost was very good, but their spamassasin has been broken for about a month and I couldn’t take it anymore!

I’ve also lowered my yearly hosting costs from $72 to $23(Dreamhost promo code: DOIT). We shall see how Dreamhost measures up.

Update: The switch went pretty smooth, although this was the most complicated one yet due to the fact that I’m using Ruby on Rails and running a photo gallery. The procedure was basically:

1. Copy Data
2. spoof new DNS by modifying ‘hosts’ file. This was required to access phpmysql and to test out the site.
3. Export/Import Mysql databases.
4. redeploy website.

I can tell the difference with Dreamhost using fastCGI. The site usually loads a lot faster. My only complaint so far is that Dreamhosts spam filtering solution isn’t as good as axishosts. Supposedly I can install a better one but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.