20 years of DreamHost

20 years of DreamHost

About twenty years ago, I opened a DreamHost account (thanks, Eran Lahav for the inspiration).

It started with 42tags.com. Then came my personal website, a few sites for friends, Anobi, and smaller experiments like RigidIngrid.

Things got bigger when I started hosting LickNRiff for Assaf. And for the last decade or so, Assaf, Shira, and I have been splitting the bill.

A couple of years ago, it occurred to me that pretty much everything I was hosting had become static. I could probably move it all to AWS and reduce the hosting bill from around $150 a year to $15.

Naturally, it took me another year and a half to actually do something about it.

A few months ago, I finally started moving the sites, one by one.

And today, I’m done.

It’s a little strange to close an account that’s been around for twenty years. All those projects, ideas, and experiments. Some took off. Others didn’t. But for a long time, they all had a home.

Thank you, DreamHost.

Your name suits you remarkably well. I really did host my dreams on your servers.

And now, to many more.

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