New Easy One-Click: Media Wiki DreamHost introduces Media Wiki (the software behind sites as Wikipedia) as an Easy One-Click install. The software has long existed as a One-Click install, but in easy mode both installation, upgrades and maintenance is 100% handled by DreamHost at the cost of fewer customization options [...]
The stats from WebHosting.Info has just been updated, and shows that DreamHost is now hosting more than 700,000 domains.
It’s just 7 months since they passed 600,000 domains and almost exactly a year since they passed half a million domains,
It’s great to see that billing errors and network troubles aside, DreamHost continues their steady [...]
The Ruby on Rails deployment tool we wrote about a while ago has just been launched.
To enable Passenger, edit any of your fully hosted domains or add a new domain from the Manage Domains area in the web panel, and check the Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails) checkbox.
When you then point that domain’s web [...]
New One-Click Install: phpBB Forum phpBB is now available as a One-Click Install. DreamHost offers phpBB both in an easy-mode and advanced-mode. In easy-mode DreamHost will handle all upgrades, but you won’t be able to customize your theme or add plug-ins.
New One-Click Install: OpenX [...]
DreamHost has updated their frontpage to show they have been recognized by WordBlu as one of the most democratic workplaces in 2008.
Guess WordBlu haven’t seen What You Get When You Work at DreamHost…
Apparently DreamHost have been beta testing Phusion Passenger - a new and interesting mod_rails deployment tool - and so involved in the development, that they are mentioned in the release notes.
According to their website, Phusion Passenger makes deployment of applications built on the Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze, because:
Deployment is only a matter [...]
DreamHost has just enabled an option to use Google’s Gmail for email on domains hosted with DreamHost. The new option is available in the Control Panel under Mail - Custom MX / Gmail.
If you move your email to Gmail you will get:
Gmail’s renowned interface as your webmail, but at http://mail.yourdomain.com
POP3/IMAP/SMTP access (as before), but now [...]
A very short newsletter this time:
Easy zenphoto One-Click
DreamHost now offers zenphoto as a hosted application. When you install zenphoto as a hosted application, you don’t have to worry about upgrading the software, bandwidth usage, disk usage, etc., since it all runs from DreamHost’s server (vs. your own shared server). The downside is that you won’t [...]
Two weeks ago, while on holiday, I received the following email from DreamHost:
Dear Unofficial DreamHost Blog,
Our system has noticed what seems to be a large amount of “backup/non-web” content on your account (#99999), mostly on user “*****” on the web server “bomberman”.
Unfortunately, our terms of service state:
The customer agrees to make use of DreamHost Web [...]
This month’s newsletter in condensed form:
Sorry About the Billing
I guess all of you have heard about DreamHost’s billing error 3 weeks ago? Otherwise see Um, Whoops, The Aftermath and The Final Update.
Easy WordPress One-Click
DreamHost now offers an “easy mode” for WordPress (probably based on WordPress MU), where DreamHost will take of all updates and maintenance. [...]
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