But....

I don't want to be an administrator. I want to make the pretty pages that do the neat things. I don't want to worry about whether I have a hole in my firewall or deal with the Apache config stuff in general.

I spent the last 9 days playing with server config stuff rather than working on the apps that I have the hosting for. Don't get me wrong -- I had some good stuff in place. I just don't really know how secure it all is or how easy it will be to add additional domains to the setup. Apache whips me and security scares me.

I am impressed with the company and how quick the small slice that I had was. I also got a LOT of really good feedback from other SliceHost users.

I just wish they had a control panel that you could use to deal with the actual hosting bits if you wanted to. They do have a control panel, but it deals with very few details with the OS mainly.

So I have put in a request to upgrade to the PS service with DreamHost. I will still be subject to the filer issues they had recently. I will minimize my risk a little, though, by not hosting email with DH. Why would you when you can use Gmail for FREE? Gmail beats Squirrel Mail all day long. The DH IMAP and POP setup is a little squirrelly, too (ha ha).

I have learned more about the magic of DNS in the past few weeks. The DH issue was good in that respect.

So I have that going for me.