I think a lot of it was the network file system issue I mentioned -- the shell felt slow, and I suspect it was because of a network disk. I can't be sure, but

I think a lot of it was the network file system issue I mentioned -- the shell felt slow, and I suspect it was because of a network disk. I can't be sure, but I think that is a significant difference between Dreamhost and NearlyFreeSpeech. Also at that point I had used Dreamhost for ~10 years, so I was just more comfortable with it. I like how my files are in ~/oilshell.org and my logs are in ~/logs/oilshell.org. If I had started with NearlyFreeSpeech I'm sure it would have been fine IIRC the reason I tried it was because I was looking for FastCGI support (i.e. non-PHP dynamic sites that you don't have to maintain a daemon for) I don't quite remember, but I think they did have some FastCGI support, but it wasn't quite what I wanted, or maybe the Python version was different, etc. It looks like a great service, but I don't currently use it