Hey guys, found this forum through some searching on Google for a new dedicated/managed hosting provider (I'm on a shared Dreamhost plan ATM).

I'm a freelance designer and photographer, so I need a host that can provide plenty of bandwidth and storage space (and a re-selling ability would be nice).

I also run a few wordpress sites as well as a forum or two, so I would need something that can handle the cpu and db required for these.

Hello jrbeilke, welcome. Enjoy your visits. :wht:

A couple points of interest are the forum guidelines (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/rules.php) and this answer guide (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=585586).

Hello and welcome :)

May I ask you about your budget and why you are leaving Dreamhost?

Don't get me wrong, Dreamhost has been pretty good to me over the past year and a half, but I've been having some downtime and MySQL problems lately.

At this point my Dreamhost account is paid up until next April so I won't be completely jumping ship anytime soon, but I have started shopping around, and I plan on moving some of my higher traffic and high priority sites to another host.

Over the weekend I setup a new account with LiquidWeb, and I am going to move a few sites over there for the next month to see how things go. Hopefully I can spread out my sites evenly across the 2 hosts for now to lighten the load on Dreamhost, and eventually move everything else over as well.