I was seriously contemplating .mac, it was actually the catalyst that made me register a domain and host this site with Dreamhost. DotMac is a pretty attractive offering, it’s integration is beautiful, but it is simply way overpriced.
And a side note, register for the trial, because you get to keep your .mac ID and using iChat will still work.
With .mac, for $139 AU I get 10 gig of storage, email, webhosting and other stuff I can’t remember right now and didn’t really interest me. With dreamhost for $99 US I get 500Gb of online storage, 200 emails, webhosting and my own domain name. And domain squatters are some of the most evil, simple minded, people you can find on the internet. It took me 4 weeks to think up this domain, and it wasn’t the best I could do, I thought up some freaking awesome town names that were all gone, not to proper sites, but to directory lists and squatters. !@##$ing squatters.
Dreamhost also have awesome technical support, and an excellent control panel with one-click installs. Seriously, I installed wordpress in less than 2 minutes. And dreamhost are not paying me to write all this. I am open to that, but I am pretty sure they are not.
So the integration between osx and .mac is pretty cool, but I can’t think of any other reason to fork over the money.
I even went thirds with a couple of mates on this host, (that’s why I don’t control the front page,) so for about 3 bucks a month I host here. And I have found workarounds to the integration issues that matter to me.
Until .mac is free, dreamhost whips the dotmacs pants.
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