…alrighty. After signing up the domain was registered less than an hour later (thumbs up). Shell access working fine (thumbs up). No CPanel?!? (thumbs down).

Now after trying to get some mysql-databases to work right away (impossible, argh, thumbs down), I’m a little bit disappointed atm as I had planned to export some dbs from my other server and import them and get the site up and running, which didn’t work out due to different reasons:

• No CPanel? You gotta be kidding me – CPanel might not be the securest thing in the world, but it’s the fastest and easiest way to get everything going (fast and right away) – and the DreamHost Panel is really something you need to get used to.
• MySQL-DBs take some time to get activated…
• …and now there’s only an index page and not the real page showing…argh!
• After almost 16h infront of a computer screen it’s time to get my eyes some rest…maybe everthing will be up and running tomorrow

Enough for now, I guess “the world will look brighter” again tomorrow and I’m sure DreamHost will stand up to it’s reputation of being on of the best hosts around :-)