Unofficial DreamHost Blog

Happy New Year and happy new newsletter:

New Year’s Resolution
DreamHost to Decrease Storage Capacity and Bandwidth Allowance?
Basically this story is just (successful) digg-bait (IMHO)…
New SVN, Ruby and ImageMagick
SVN has been upgraded to version 1.3.2
Imagemagick to version 6.2.4 and
Ruby to version 1.8.5
New Domain Transfer Locking
You can now “lock” your domains as an extra safeguard against scumbags trying [...]

DreamHost’s December newsletter covering events in November:

Media.dreamhost.com
Publish your own videos on your own server in your own flash player. More info in DreamHost Media Tools Beta.
Google Checkout
Google Checkout added as a payment option.
Adsense on DreamBook
DreamHost’s free guest book service now uses Google Adsense text ads instead of graphical banner ads.
Free Hosting for Non-Profits, Forever
DreamHost are [...]

Another month, another newsletter:

New Data Center!
DreamHost are in the process of moving some of their dedicated servers to a new hosting facility in the Alchemy’s LAX Data Center. DreamHost are already using Alchemy’s Downtown Data Center which is in the same building (The Garland Building) as the rest of DreamHost servers. The goal is to [...]

One of the longest newsletters ever and it’s packed with great birthday news:

It’s our birthday? Double the bandwidth, tenify the disk!
The super secret stuff from last month’s newsletter: Every hosting account has been upgraded with up to 10 times the disk storage and at least double the bandwidth. The cheapest package, Crazy Domain Insane now [...]

Newsletter for the month of August :
No new features or developments in August 2006, but promises of some SUPER SECRET stuff in next month’s newsletter…

DHSOTM
DreamHost Site of the Month: eldoras.com

Any guesses to what the SUPER SECRET stuff could be?

This month’s newsletter has just hit the streets:

What a month!
The full account of the last three weeks (with two power outages, a file server break-down and network troubles) can be found at Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster…
ActiveCollab one-click!
One-click install of activeCollab - a web based collaboration and project management tool.
Disk/Transfer status bars!
Just a small update [...]

News from this month’s newsletter:

Create a user while adding a domain!
Small update to the Control Panel: It’s now possible to add a new FTP user to your account, while adding a new domain.
Over fifty WordPress themes auto-installed!
WordPress has been upgraded to 2.0.3 and now includes 50 pre-installed themes.
DreamHost Chat.
After a couple of DreamHost customers started [...]

In case you haven’t received the newsletter yet here is a short summary:

Email logins with user@domain.com!
Covered in DreamHost Test New Email Logins.
No more CPU minute restrictions!
This deserves a post on its own. Coming right up….
Here goes: CPU minute restrictions removed.
Announcement list email double-typing!
New feature: Have your users re-type their email address when they subscribe to [...]

Since most of you probably already read the May newsletter by now and all the news already has been covered in this blog, I’m just going to summarize it really quickly:

New! http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/!
Covered in New DreamHost Status Page.
No more Miva! No more oscommerce! More Zen Cart!
Covered in Zen-Cart One-Click Install.
New! Domain WHOIS Privacy Service!
Covered in DreamHost Domain [...]

A quick overview of this month’s newsletter :

Multiple Databases per Hostname!
One of the most popular suggestions is coming through: You can now have multiple databases per hostname, use the same MySQL username to access multiple databases and have one phpMyAdmin management area for all the databases on your account.
See Sneaky Changes Afoot.. for more info.
New! [...]