• DreamHost shared hosting
  • SSH comes with it. They discourage any server-side work, webhosting only. (i.e. if you build a spider, you need to do your spidering off-site, but the end-user part can be on DreamHost)
  • they allow adult websites, no problem
• GoDaddy shared hosting
  • SSH comes with it
  • OS is CentOS 5.2
  • No, you can't compile anything. GCC isn't available. WTF? AVOID GoDaddy for hosting.
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