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55 Reasons Why DreamHost Rocks 2008-06-04 11:16:49 Many users have a story about why they love DreamHost
’s customer service. This DreamHost-themed meme lists some of our favorite reasons why DreamHost rocks.
Forget other web hosts with too-good-to-be-true introductory offers. Free software! Free domain transfers! We’ll send your mother-in-law flowers!
Enough. For us, the big difference with DreamHost is the sheer [...] Read more:Reasons
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April Fools’ Flashback: Go Dream Daddy Host 2008-06-03 14:03:21 While researching Dream
Nut blog posts, we stumbled across this AprilFools
’ Day gem from 2006 in the DreamHost Wiki.
Los Angeles, CA - Web hosting provider DreamHost Web Hosting (dreamhost.com), announced on Friday it has decided to merge with Go Daddy
corporation. The new company will be named Go Dream Daddy Host (GoDream-DaddyHost.com).
A related Go Daddy [...]
DreamNut Returns 2008-06-03 13:08:16 As you’ll have noticed, DreamNut has been quiet since late 2007. Blogger Eric (of Pligg fame) has graciously passed the site on so a new team can take over his good work.
Regular posting will resume later this month - watch this space! In the meantime, let us know any DreamHost tutorials, hints or tips you’d [...] Read more:Returns
New DreamHost One Click Install: Pligg 2007-10-05 03:56:45 Pligg, the content management system that I co-founded nearly two years ago, has been added to the Dreamhost one click install program. For those of you who don’t know, Pligg is an open source CMS that lets you create a Digg-like site in just a few minutes. It’s a highly social CMS that generally relies [...] Read more:DreamHost
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DreamHost Wiki Now Supports Video 2007-05-04 08:39:51 Reading this month’s DreamHost
newsletter I came across a neat little feature that DreamHost now offers on the DH wiki. The wiki now supports embedded video, which means that the DreamNut video tutorials can now be directly displayed into the wiki without me linking back to my blog posts. The example video that [...] Read more:Wiki
New Dreamhost Cron Jobs Feature 2007-05-04 08:10:46 Dreamhost now supports an easy maintenance cron job panel. You no longer have to SSH into your account to setup cronjobs! This feature has been something I have been wanting for a long time since Cpanel has a similar feature. Now you can setup and manage cron jobs all from your [...]
Reader Question: FileZilla Account Logontype 2007-03-30 10:46:40 Shealee wrote:
What is the account file in FileZilla’s site manager? What do I need to do there?
Well Shealee, the Logontype for Account
is a mystery to me. Even after a few minutes of Googling and asking some of my friends I wasn’t able to find an answer for you. This feature wasn’t even included [...] Read more:Reader
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New Dreamhost Control Panel 2007-03-01 19:49:02 In case you haven’t noticed yet Dreamhost has changed their web panel template to a much brighter, web 2.0 friendly style. The design makes use of some simple Ajax, which I’m starting to get sick of because I already see it a lot in other web work that I do, and they also threw [...] Read more:Control
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My First DreamHost Rewards Check 2007-02-12 21:40:07 Today I received in the mail my very first Dreamhost Rewards
check. I have been saving up my payments over the past four months and the result was a really large sum of money. It was such a large sum that it qualifies as the largest check I’ve ever received. Amazing how [...] Read more:DreamHost
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Pligg PhpBB2 Module Tutorial 2007-01-21 23:19:25 This tutorial shows you how to download, edit, FTP upload and install the phpBB2 module for Pligg
. This tutorial does not however instruct you how to install phpbb, that tutorial will come at a later date. This tutorial is for those of you who already have phpbb installed and wish to integrate your users [...] Read more:Module
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DreamHost Reseller Hosting 2008-06-08 10:14:58 Does Dreamhost allow reselling of their services?
Yes - While Dreamhost doesn’t offer specific reseller plans, customers may use any Dreamhost hosting plan for the purpose of reselling.
As long as you remain within your bandwidth, storage and CPU cycle quotes, any DreamHost
user is allowed to use their account to resell hosting. If you are [...] Read more:Reseller
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DreamHost Private Servers 2008-06-11 18:32:06 DreamHost now offer their own VPS product, DreamHost Private
Servers.
Dreamhost Private Servers seem to exist somewhere between a shared hosting environment, and a VPS. A true VPS would also allow root access and the ability to run your own software on the server (such as cpanel, Plesk, etc).
With Dreamhost PS you don’t get [...] Read more:DreamHost
How to Fix a Bad_httpd_conf Error 2008-06-13 11:25:20 Did you try to view your website but all you get is this following error message?
Site Temporarily Unavailable
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this.
error id: “bad_httpd_conf”
Don’t panic.
This post will explain what a “bad_httpd_conf” means, and how to fix the problem.
While your gut reac
Go Green with Carbon Neutral Hosting 2008-06-16 11:31:57 Last year, Dreamhost announced that it has become carbon neutral. This means that Dreamhost has calculated it’s impact on everything that they use and leave behind from paper, to electricty, and even gas to drive to work, then purchase renewable energy credits and carbon credits to offset their companies personal impact on the environment.
You [...] Read more:Green
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Dreamhost Support is Wiki-riffic 2008-06-23 12:19:33 The wiki serves as DreamHost’s web hosting manual, but also contains a lot of non DreamHost-specific information too.
The community supported wiki contains tons of information about working with Dreamhost from basic FAQs to detailed tutorials. If you have a question about your hosting, you can probably find the answer in the wiki.
Popular sections in the [...] Read more:Support
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Firefox 3: The Best Browser Yet 2008-06-18 15:48:42 If you missed the announcement, Firefox
3 was released on June 17th.
Said to have: “more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.” One of the most impressive improvements in my opinion is Firefox’s performance. Firefox 3 has made some great leaps to become the leanest & fastest version to [...]
Spying on the World with Google Trends 2008-06-29 12:18:25 Google
just made some updates to Google Trends
which allows you to research and compare search terms by popularity and geographical region. If you do keyword research, this can be a very handy tool.
After signing in to a Google Account, visitors to Trends can now view the “numbers” on the graphs as well as being [...] Read more:World
Rhetoric Champs: The Official DreamHost Blog 2008-06-28 12:18:26 I have an interest in rhetoric, the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion.
No, really…this IS interesting, please read on:
My studies of rhetoric have made me fans of those who have mastered the art of persuasion, and one of my favorite examples is the official DreamHost
blog. Which is massively [...] Read more:Champs
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Dreamhost Site of the Month (DHSOTM) 2008-06-27 12:23:40 The DreamHost Site of the Month
(DHSOTM) contest started in 1998 to honor the best sites among the ones they host.
Each month, one DreamHost customer gets their site anointed the Site of the Month; the winner being the site with the highest average vote with at least 10 votes when the newsletter is written. The [...]
Dreamhost Discussion Forums 2008-06-26 12:18:27 If you haven’t already, you may want to check out and bookmark the official Dreamhost DiscussionForums
. Although you’ll find some drivel and whining, there are generally a few good conversations taking place around the forums.
If you are a potential customer of Dreamhost, you may want to check out the Curious About Dreamhost? forum [...]
DreamHost Media Player: Embed Audio, Video & More 2008-06-25 12:21:26 All DreamHost
hosting packages include access to a free flash-based media player as well as an image rotator. This means you can easily (and awesomely) embed audio, video or picture slideshows into your website.
The Flash Media Player can only play videos in “FLV” format… but DreamHost allows you to convert your .avi, .mov, or .mpg [...] Read more:Audio
DreamHost One Click Installs 2008-06-24 12:18:28 DreamHost offers one click installs for a stack of open source software. Which makes it incredibly simple to get a fully functional database driven site up In 5 mins — without much hosting or programming knowledge.
Sweet, eh?
Dreamhost even has an “Easy Mode” for installing WordPress, Zenphoto, phpBB, and Drupal. In easy mode, Dreamhost handles [...] Read more:DreamHost
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Removing “www” Without .HTACCESS 2008-07-21 03:30:21 DreamHost makes it super easy to remove or require the “www” from your domain name automatically. While some people prefer to not use “www” in their web site URL some prefer that it always be there.
Whether it be for SEO purposes or just for aesthetics, you can easily set this up via your Web Panel [...]
Important DreamHost Links 2008-07-18 03:30:23 Today, I spent 10 minutes searching Google for the Official DreamHost
Blog, before getting irritated and guessed the URL. It wasn’t in the even top 20 results for the phrase “DreamHost Blog”. A random site with a link pointing to THIS blog was in the top 20 results. Crazy, eh?
Maybe it’s just a temporary glitch [...]
Google Apps in a Snap with DreamHost 2008-07-17 03:30:22 Google Apps offers webmasters some pretty spiffy tools, such as email hosting for your domain, custom calenders, start pages and more.
Even spiffier is that DreamHost
has made integration and registration with Google Apps dead simple and can create neat subdirectories for the Google hosted content. Hurray!
To get started using Google Apps with your website:
- [...] Read more:Google
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Best Guarantee in Web Hosting 2008-07-16 03:30:25 Dreamhost is recognized as one of the top web hosts for good reason, they stand by their service and offer a money back guarantee. In case you haven’t heard, DreamHost offers the best (well, at least the longest) money back guarantee in the industry.
With DreamHost, you get 97 days to decide whether you want to [...] Read more:Hosting
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How to Report Abuse to DreamHost 2008-07-15 03:30:20 If you think a DreamHost
customer is behind illegal activities such as spamming, fraud, copyright infringement, etc… your first stop should be the Dreamhost Abuse Center. (Not the forums)
The Abuse Center’s purpose is to assist anyone experiencing abusive activities originating from or associated with Dreamhost servers, and also educate DreamHost customers on acceptable practices for
Dreamhost Web Panel vs cPanel 2008-07-14 03:32:18 One of the factors I research when shopping for web hosting is what kind of control panel for domain management they use. Plesk, ensim, and Direct Admin are common web administration packages used by webhosts with cPanel
being the one I see advertised most. Some web hosts, like DreamHost, use their own proprietary web panel.
Normally [...] Read more:cPanel
Instant Backups with DreamHost Snapshots 2008-07-11 06:39:17 Dreamhost provides a free and automated site backup and restoration system called Snapshots. Though this service is not guaranteed by DreamHost
it deserves a mention and some praise as such backups are almost unheared of in a shared hosting environment.
So if you accidentally erased a needed file off the server, messed up your site with [...] Read more:Backups
Have a Suggestion for Dreamhost? 2008-07-10 06:39:18 One of the unique benefits of being a Dreamhost customer is the power to suggest changes and improvements, then vote on proposed suggestions. Votes strongly influence what gets implemented by Dreamhost.
So, if you think Dreamhost should install new software, update policies, add a new feature, or make any other changes Dreamhost Suggestion
s give you the [...]
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