A personal homepage I had started long ago and had been meaning to long overhaul is the Microsoft like Interview Questions database. Last month, I was surprised to hear an intern at my company and an old friend I met after a few years mention that they had gone through my page for even hardware interviews. Hmm, it would be worth the time finding a permanent home for the questions if they were really that useful.
The timing was right. I bumped into this web hosting deal with Dreamhost which for the price of a loaded latte would give me the web hosting for an year and then need a latte a month after that. Rules say I had to do some research before signing up (topic for whole another post). It took me longer to search for a domain name than it took for me to signup and have the website up and running!
If you want to check DreamHost out, do use my reference. If you use the promo code BOND I even share my referral bonus as your discount!
Of course, I do have to review Dreamhost, right? If you read reviews around the web about various hosting sites and compare reviews (like I did) you will find positive and negative reviews for every hosting company. The interesting thing about dreamhost is how much I like it and at the same time I can believe people hating it. It is it not a very layman friendly setup. If you are trying to write some HTML and make you webpage then there might be better hosting elsewhere. Of course, this is my first and only hosting experience so YMMV.
I picked the unix hosting plan and you have to know what telnet, ftp and webmail are to create the basic website. If you do not know what PuTTY is then geocities might be a better option. However, for the more powerful users who know a database from a platypus, dreamhost offers a lot of features and tools including great one click install of tools like photo Gallery, WordPress blog, among others. It took me 5 minutes to install Wordpress which motivated me to start the blog in the first place.
Oh yeah! I do need to get to those interview questions sometime 