Installing and Using Revolution as a CGI on Tierra.Net (was Dreamhost)

[Chipp Walters]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the info on Tierra.net, but unless I'm missing something, it 
is way more expensive than DreamHost.com.

On DreamHost you get:
1 FREE domain registration
www.yourname.com
UNLIMITED domains hosted
UNLIMITED subdomains
20 GB Disk, 1 TB Transfer
3000 Mailboxes, 75 Shell/FTP Users

all for $7.95 bucks a month.

The cheapest plan I could find at Tierra.net was:
100 MB, 2GB Bandwidth
Bundled email provides SPAM filtering, virus protection, and 5 mailboxes 
with webmail access.  	

all for $17.95 per month

So, it's over 2X the cost with 1/200th the storage space and 1/500th the 
Bandwidth allowed. Not sure of the value prop there...though I have to 
add one caveat.

While I've never contacted Tierra.net, you have said you can actually 
*talk* to a person there. I've tried on numerous occasions to *talk* to 
a person at DreamHost, never with any success. I figured if I couldn't 
talk to a live human, then they wouldn't get my business. I use 
iPowerWeb.com, but have yet to try running Rev cgi there.

best,

Chipp


Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Good stuff, Phil.
> 
> Phil's instructions for DreamHost are similar to what you'd need for 
> Tierra.Net, which offers similarly priced packages.