As I've mentioned before, my sites are hosted by Bluehost who so far I've had mostly great things to say about.
However, today I went to visit one of my websites, which happens to run drupal in a Multisite Installation, and the none of the CSS/images loaded, leaving my website looking like something from 1992.

Over a year ago I discovered the beauty of Drupal and the amazing things that could be done with it, and typically without doing any major programming. Modules like CCK, Views and the helpers for these modules make developing dynamic websites a snap. You will most likely need a bit of knowledge in terms of html/css (modifying templates to suite your needs) but in my experience I've had to do only a very moderate amount of actual PHP coding. If anything, I could add some specific behaviour to the page through the use of javascript.

If you are going to build drupal websites, I wouldn't recommend Dreamhost or any hosting service which splits the database and web server across multiple servers. Its not that I have a problem with dreamhost, its just that the negative performance implications of such a design imposes on database heavy applications. Yeah I know the reasons for doing such a thing, and in many cases it is more cost effective for hosting. But it works horrible for web applications which do lots of database queries to gather page data.

It may have been over two weeks late but www.sm-hog.com was finally launched yesterday morning. It was quite a learning experience for me and everyone else involved.

Its nice to see a project develop into something more than just a bunch of html that nobody will use or appreciate. Hopefully the site will be used by the members.