Software Developer, Media Nut, and Proud Father of Two

Several of my client's sites, as well as my own, have been moved to my new VPS with Slicehost.com, which I think has provided me with the best bang for my buck. I appreciate the service that Dreamhost has offered in the last 18 months, but enough is enough. Performance and reliability have become an issue with disks failures, random MySQL downtimes, and utter slowness. This is to be expected when you're on shared hosting... or is it? I can't help but sense that Dreamhost has started over-hosting, taking in more and more sites that have affected how well my sites run. I've been developing on CakePHP for the last few months, and even a barebone install has yielded in slower than desired results. I may be more sympathetic to the slowness if the site were running a CMS that had a large number of modules, but a fresh install of CakePHP? This isn't a diss on CMS' though, because some are well optimized, such as this site running Drupal.

I consider myself to be a competent PHP, CSS, HTML, and JS developer as well as a perfectionist. To quote Adrian Monk: It's gift.... and a curse. This perfectionist gift/curse has helped and hindered me in the several years that I have coded in the mentioned languages. The gifts has brought about great results in the work that I have performed in the past that has made my clients happy with those results. The curse, however, has slowed down progress. Within the last year, I have started making a new framework or CMS at least three times and there is no end in sight for a number of reasons.