The other DreamHost Blog started to announce the winners of our contest yesterday, but they jumped the gun and didn’t get the details straight, probably because Josh was in a rush not to be scooped again…

The question wasn’t when DreamHost would announce that they passed 500,000, but which exact day it happened according to WebHosting.Info.

The correct answer was May 13th, 2007!

Nobody had the right answer, but 6 out of the 108 entries were within one day of the correct answer. Keating and Razy was one day early and Kevin Hatfield, Jessica, May and SC was one day late.

Out of these six entries Jessica Yu from Calgary, Canada has been drawn as the lucky winner of an iPod Shuffle.

Congrats Jessica. The iPod is on its way…

But that’s not it…

Josh from DreamHost has kindly agreed to sponsor an $80 account credit (the cost of an iPod shuffle) to the five runner-ups: John Keating, Razy, Kevin Hatfield, May, Sze Chuen Tan and to the two who guessed on May 15th, 2007: George Tyshchenko and Matt Skorina. Congrats to all of you!

Finally is just to say thank you too all the participants and to DreamHost for sponsoring the gift certificates.

I’ve been away on holidays for the last month and didn’t have the chances to update this blog that I expected. Anyway, now I’m back just in time to celebrate the Unofficial DreamHost Blog’s first birthday today.

In 365 days I’ve written 75 posts, you’ve written 324 comments, while the spammers has had 5374 comments blocked by Akismet.

Most read posts:

• Avoid Warning When Checking Secure Email
• End of PHP as an Apache Module?
• 3 Tips for Secure Communications
• CPU minute restrictions removed
• Mirror of DreamHost’s Knowledge Base

Most commented posts:

• Fileserver Outage
• End of PHP as an Apache Module?
• Mirror of DreamHost’s Knowledge Base
• Avoid Warning When Checking Secure Email
• DreamHost Newsletter – September 2006

Most work:

• Double DreamHost +
  More DreamHost Statistics
• DreamHost Year in Review
• Mirror of DreamHost’s Knowledge Base
• Discussion Forum Birthday – 5 years today +
  Birthday Present for the Forums – RSS Feed
• DreamHost Support Queue

If you’re new to the Unofficial DreamHost Blog or just haven’t read the above mentioned posts you might find some interesting stuff there that you’ve missed out on.

P.S: I’m going to update the blog with info from the last month. What did I miss besides the storage and bandwidth upgrades?

Everything should be working again, otherwise send me an email or write a comment.

While creating the forum stats, I found myself parsing a lot of the forum data, and thought that the data could easily be outputted as a RSS feed. A feed would make it possible to track new posts and replies in the forums, without being logged in to the forum all the time.

I’ve now used the feed myself for a couple of days, and I’m quite satisfied with it. I thought it might be useful for someone else, so here it is:
The Unofficial DreamHost Discussion Forum RSS Feed.

The feed is updated every 5 minuttes (if any changes has been made) and contains title, url, category and username for all forum posts within the last 48 hours. It’s hosted by FeedBurner in order to secure greater compatibility and to unburden my server (in case it gets popular).

http://blog.dreamhosters.com/feed/dreamhost-discussion-forum/

Please let me know if it’s working for you, or if you have any suggestions for improvements of the feed.

My knowledge about DreamHost is primarily accumulated from the Knowledge Base, Discussion Forum and Community Wiki, but also from other blogs and news sources.

Please notice that DreamHost has their own official weblog. The Unofficial DreamHost Blog is not affiliated with or endorsed by DreamHost.