Recommend Coldfusion for Dreamhost
Talking with someone from work today about my webhost had me investigating some of the many features that have gone unused on my account. They have great support — either through tickets or their wiki, subversion wherever and whenever you want, the ability to one click install loads of things, you can install trac, Ruby On Rails and just about anything you could ever want. To be honest, they support everything I want with one glaringly obvious exception — Coldfusion. I just noticed though they have a “Suggestions” section in their control panel (Home > Suggestions) where members can vote on features to implement. If you’re a Dreamhost customer, vote for it! Unfortunately it’s been on the suggestions list since 2004 so I’m not expecting much; but hey it won’t hurt to vote it up! I also added my votes for some other cool things like one click trac install and a handful of other interesting sounding features.
Dreamhost has been amazing so far, which makes me stay a loyal customer. There aren’t too many services online I can say that I pay for, which means they offer some great services. I am anxiously awaiting when MediaTemplate offers more than just a tease of their ColdFusion services, as the rest of their setup looks very impressive. I’m still looking for a ColdFusion host though, so if you have any suggestions please let me know. The only real requirements I have are CF 7 (hopefully upgrading to 8 when it comes out), apache and multiple domains.
Note: If you want to sign up with Dreamhost and want a full discount, you can use the promo code fortuna_waived which gives as much money off as possible ($97 if you order the 1yr plans). In other words I don’t make anything and you get full discount. Your second year will be full price I believe. Only thing you have to do if you sign up with this is vote for ColdFusion. 
I have been happy with CrystalTech. They offer various flavours of CF hosting and supporting 7.02. At very reasonable prices too…
I’ve tried HostMySite and CrystalTech for CF hosting. While both solid, neither offer fully functional multi-domains or databases. You get basic domain pointers, but they just re-direct back to the main account URL. Not the same with MT or Dreamhost, where each domain is 100% fully functional and you can add as many databases as you wish.
Honestly, there’s zero, what I’d consider, “modern” CF hosts on the market. I no longer want to buy multiple accounts for multiple domains; that seems so out of 2004…
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I’m a pretty happy Dreamhost customer too, and I’ll be heading over to give a vote for Coldfusion. I’ve been with CrystalTech in the past and I’d give them a thumbs up (for Windows-bases CF hosting). Like Geoff said, I wish they’d find a way to offer multiple domain hosting.
I put my vote in, and so did my friend who’s also a DreamHost customer.
I also started a thread on the DreamHost programming forum, please add comments there and let the DreamHost staff know we want ColdFusion!
As would be expected, it’s been an uphill battle at that thread so far. Fun, but uphill.
I would recommend Server Intellect over DH just for the support alone We had lots of issues with DH in the past. DH is a nightmare I am glad I woke up from.