Unofficial DreamHost Blog

A follow up to yesterday’s billing incident.
Everybody should have been refunded by now, and DreamHost has promised to do their best to take care of any incurred fee from your bank or credit card company.
I can belive how out of line some of the comments on DreamHost’s two blogs are - but no, Josh is [...]

As you have probably seen by now - since it appears the story is all over the internet right now - DreamHost accidently billed customers for totally over 7.5 million dollars last nigh.
The error was first reported on the status blog and later an explanation was posted on the official blog.
The billing glitch happened when [...]

DreamHost has just finished upgrading all servers to Ruby on Rails 2.0.2.
Rails 2.0 was released about a month ago and contains new features, loads of fixes and an incredible amount of polish.
The official Rails blog has an article describing a number of the more interesting new features in the release which appears to be quite [...]

DreamHost is currently beta-testing RoundCube as a new webmail client at roundcube.dreamhost.com.
RoundCube is a modern browser-based webmail client with an application-like user interface (kind of like Gmail). The use of AJAX makes tasks like folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking a lot easier.

We first wrote about RoundCube about 2 years ago, and we know [...]

Another newsletter translated from Josh’s gibberish.

Spacey Moved
The “spacey” cluster was successfully moved to a new datacenter. More server moves are planned over the next few months - watch the status blog for updates.
DreamHost PS Update
DreamHost is making progress on the waitlist for DreamHost PS (Private Server) and MySQL PS. If you sign up now, you [...]

Just weeks after DreamHost could celebrate their 10th anniversary, they can now celebrate another milestone. DreamHost is now hosting more than 600.000 domains according to WebHosting.Info.

They are thereby continuing their explosive growth and are still adding 600 domains on average every single day.

Looking at the Top Hosting Companies Worldwide DreamHost is now placed as 14th, [...]

Three days ago DreamHost posted a clarification regarding their policies on the use of their services for personal storage and backup purposes. They emphasized that files uploaded to your account should be provided with the intent of distributing them to others from your hosted sites.
The main concern is apparently that DreamHost’s servers are being filled [...]

Lunarpages has silently added a new 404 File Not Found page to all customer accounts. The page displays the domain name of the account holder, a search box which returns sponsored ad results and a number of links (dating, mortgage, ringtones, etc.) to Oversee’s PPC search engine searchportal.information.com.
While the customer’s domain name is displayed, there [...]

Looks like DreamHost is launching a new pricing structure together with their birthday promo.

There is currently only 1 service plan (which includes 500 GB disk storage and 5 TB monthly bandwidth) and a number of new add-on options:

Premium Phone Support ($9.95/month)
Double to 1 TB Disk Storage ($9.95/month)
Double to 10 TB Bandwidth ($9.95/month)
VPN Access ($19.95/month)

So goodbye [...]

The promo is live now :

500 GB Disk Storage, 5 TB Monthly Bandwidth, plus many more features - from $5.95/month!

Sign up for hosting with DreamHost TODAY and prepay for a year of service (or more) using the promo code 10ten10diez10dix10dieci10shi and get an instant discount of $110.10 of your bill!
This means that you can get [...]