• Dallas Kashuba (DreamHost co-founder) describes how he installed an SSH client on his iPhone.
• Peteris Krumins launched digpicz.com on DreamHost earlier this week. On his blog he tells how he handled receiving more than 130,000 visitors and 265,000 pageviews during the first two days.
• UrbanWorkbench has an interview with Ilija Studen – the programmer behind activeCollab (available as a DreamHost one-click install).

Not surprisingly RegisterFly (who went belly up recently) is the worst host overall with more than 100 negative reviews and only five posive reviews.

1. RegisterFly
2. 1T3 Online
3. Globat
4. DataPacket
5. Dot5 Hosting

Read the entire list at Web Hosting Unleashed and if you like the story please digg it.

Part 1 of the tutorial shows how to create a new user with shell access, how to enable SSH access to the server without having to supply a password and how to use rsync from the terminal to create a backup of your home folder on the server.

Part 2 of the tutorial shows you how to create an AppleScript that runs rsync automatically and how to setup iCal to run the AppleScript on a daily basis.

Latest In Tech explains how to do the same on Windows with cwRsync (a package of Rsync and Cygwin).

As a follow up to my post with the Top 10 Worst Domain Names from last summer, here comes even more unfortunate domain names. If you enjoyed this post, please Digg It !

1. The Royal Tit-Watching (Ornithological) Society Of Britain used the domain:
   www.Nice-Tits.org
   
2. Manufacturer of instruments for monitoring temperature, humidity and pressure Dickson didn’t think twice when they choose:
   www.DicksOnWeb.com
3. A holiday rentals company in Spain is called Choose Spain. Hopefully the vacation won’t be a painful experience:
   www.ChoosesPain.com
   
4. A company selling CAD software and Learning CDs was called ViaGrafix – quite innocent until a blue pill hit the market. The company is now called Learn2.
   www.ViagraFix.com
   
5. TeachersTalk: A community for teachers and student to discuss all areas of teaching… Even how to stalk teachers?
   www.TeacherStalk.com
   
6. The small town Winters’ local newspaper is called Winters Express and can be read online at:
   www.WinterSexPress.com
   
7. An eBay competitor was considering the name Auctions Hit, but found it to be a shitty name:
   www.AuctionShit.com
8. If you offer a scaffold erection/dismantle service, maybe you shouldn’t have a mammoth as your mascot and call your company Mammoth Erection:
   www.MammothErection.com
9. Things to do and see along New York State’s Canals and vacation regions:
   www.NYCAnal.com
10. New Zealand’s “As Seen On TV” is called “But That’s Not All“. But do they sell Butt Hats or not?
    www.ButtHatsNotAll.co.nz
11. The kids might look nice in their Childrens’ Wear, but remember:
    www.ChildrenSwear.co.uk
    
12. IHA Vegas‘ holiday rentals might have a special smell, since:
    www.IHaveGas.com
13. Could a Apple Macintosh make me more masculine? Read more in macHome magazine:
    www.MachoMe.com
    
14. Odds Extractor – Online gambling resource or farmers looking for new and unusual machinery?
    www.OddSexTractor.com
15. If you’re known as Big Al, why not call your online fish supplies store for Big Al’s Online?
    www.BiGalsOnline.com
    
16. SCA Tissue – Away-From-Home tissue products has a terrible issue with their name:
    www.ScatIssue.com
    
17. Even if you’re company is called Cumbria Storage Systems don’t even think about calling your website:
    www.CumStore.co.uk
    
18. Alter Scrap Processing part of The Alter Companies use the domain:
    www.AltersCrap.com
19. Anyone knows if Australian ISP WebOne does some moonlighting?
    www.WeBone.com
    
20. Don’t start a business in Cook Islands… Given that their TLD is .ck and they use .co for commercial domains, you end up with:
    www.budget.Co.ck

Sources: Domain Rookie, Grupthink, MetaFilter and NamePros.

May I suggest he add this blog for a total coverage of DreamHost news

Thanks for the tip…

If another web development framework sounds compelling to you, maybe you should read Bruce Kroeze’s Top ten reasons to use Django for your web framework or Jeff Croft’s Django for non-programmers.

Jeff has also written an article about Setting up Django on DreamHost as a supplement to the Django installation guide in DreamHost’s wiki.

• Dan Cederholm
  Author of Bulletproof Web Design and Web Standards Solutions. Known for his redesign of Fast Company and Inc.com. Recently behind the design of Rollyo and Cork’d.
• Todd Dominey
  Co-author of Professional CSS, redesigned Blogger’s templates, designer of 2005 PGA Championship and creator of SlideShowPro.
• Dave Shea
  The cultivator of the CSS Zen Garden, author of The Zen of CSS Design and member of the Web Standards Project.
• Douglas Bowman
  Influential designer behind redesigns of Blogger, Wired News, Capgemini and Adaptive Path.
• D. Keith Robinson
  Creative director for Blue Flavor, associate editor of Lifehacker, contributing writer A List Apart and former editor in chief of Digital-Web.
• Dan Rubin
  Contributing author of Cascading Style Sheets, featured in The Zen of CSS Design and CSS Professional Style and one of the Blogger redesigners.
• Jason Santa Maria
  Art Director for A List Apart and graphic designer for Happy Cog (Jeffrey Zeldman’s web design studio).
• Dan Benjamin
  System developer for A List Apart. Developer of The Encoder and Cork’d.
• Mike Davidson
  Famous for his ESPN redesign, development of the sIRF method of creating Flash headers and now CEO of Newsvine.
• Owen Briggs
  Author of Cascading Style Sheets and famous for his Box Lessons. Former member of WaSP.

Write a comment if you have any additions to this DreamHost Hall of Fame.

More than 500 fixes, tweaks and features from over 100 contributors. Check out all the new features, from the blockbusters to the lesser known upgrades.

Some people reports problems, since 1.1 is not 100% backward compatible, but you should be able to either tie your Rails application to a specific version of the Rails Gems or download a copy of the 1.0 release for each of your applications.

Updated:
Same problem happened to Site5 and TextDrive. Apparently DreamHost has currently rolled back to 1.0.

Updated again:
DreamHost has the full explanation of the problems yesterday in their blog.

• Version Control with Subversion
  Free book about Subversion published by O’Reilly Media
• Keep Track of Your Documents - PC Magazine
  Introduction to Subversion and TortoiseSVN
• Subversion and TortoiseSVN - PC Magazine
  An Illustrated Walkthrough
• SVN as a Web Site Maintenance Tool - Alex King
  Tips for using subversion to run a web site
• Version Control for Non-Programmers with Subversion - NewsForge
  Use the power of subversion to handle your spreadsheets and powerpoints
• Backing Up Your Subversion Repository - Eric Goodwin
  How to backup and import a subversion dump

If you have any additional Subversion links to share, feel free to post them in the comments.

The main problems with the new Wiki-based Knowledge Base are:

• old links are broken (there is no way to tell what kbase article https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=138 was about)
• user comments have not been moved (the comments were sometimes the most valuable part of the articles)
• people used to the old system will have to spend time getting used to new Knowledge Base
• lack of categorization of articles in the Wiki

Parts of the old Knowledge Base really needed a rewrite and I guess the Wiki-based Knowledge Base will be easier to maintain, so it’s not all bad, but right now I really miss the old KBase. In my opinion they should have kept the old Knowledge Base until the content and comments were better integrated in the Wiki and the old links were properly redirected.

I’ve therefore collected Google’s cached snapshot of most of the original content. Out of more than 1000 entries only 5 pages were missing. I will still try to get a copy of the last 5 pages (area 673, 681, 856, 996 and 2201).

Added:
Done!: I now got a copy of all the entries.

I’ve chosen to make my mirror of the Knowledge Base public for everybody to use. Since all the content in the Wiki is available under the GNU Free Documentation License, I guess DreamHost will have no problem with this. Otherwise they can always contact me.

To convert an old link to a mirror link replace
https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=138 with
http://blog.dreamhosters.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=138.

Please notice that this Knowledge Base Mirror will not be updated, it’s no longer possible to comment the articles and it’s currently not possible to search the archive.

Added:
It’s now possible to search the mirror of DreamHost Knowledge Base…