Scott Blomquist

I was just thinking back to a time when I was in high school that I was excited that hard disk drive prices had finally dropped below $1 per megabyte, and 1 gigabyte disks had just been introduced. (Yeah—as in that 1 terrabyte monster you just built would have required 1000 separate drives and cost you $1 million dollars.)

Things have just kept on getting better and cheaper, and now, storage has gotten cheap enough that Google and Microsoft are both advertising email storage that grows faster than you do, and Yahoo’s gone all the way and is offering unlimited storage.

And it’s not just Yahoo that’s doing unlimited storage. And it’s not just storage that’s unlimited these days. The internet service provider that’s hosting this blog is currently offering a lifetime of unlimited storage and bandwidth for new customers. I had to try and fire several hosting companies (1&1 was my least favorite host of all time due to obnoxious fine print and really bad customer service) before I found Dreamhost, but Dreamhost has served me well now for several years.

They have good hosting and a good user community. Not to mention, they do free hosting for non-profits and are carbon neutral. Without having tried all of the web hosts out there, I’d say Dreamhost must be close to the best web host on the planet. If you’re looking for an Internet host (or even if you already have one but suspect you could do better), I’d highly recommend that you give them a shot. They even have a 97 day money back guarantee. (A trick I learned too late: if you think there’s ever a chance that you’ll have a need for SSL hosting, you can sign up using the promo code “1UNIQUE” to get a lifetime free unique IP for your site.)