DreamHost’s web hosting is world-famous, but did you know that we run a side business throwing INSANE parties? From our employee Halloween and Holiday parties, we know how to have a good time and we’re taking that experience to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festival in Austin next week. We’re throwing our own [...]
If you weren’t at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) this past weekend, you missed a geekfest of epic proportions. For three days over 1800 attendees crammed into the LAX Hilton Hotel for an avalanche of open-source goodness which included our co-founder, Sage Weil, speaking about the Ceph distributed file-system. DreamHost’s Robert Rowley gave another [...]
Hard drive failures suck and the IT world has created an incredible number of systems, protocols and products to minimize, mask, and recover from storage failures. Many of these solutions are EXPEN$IVE, complex and proprietary, but we at DreamHost are developing a much cheaper (as in FREE) alternative. The Ceph open-source file system will store and protect petabytes of data [...]
A few of DreamHost’s “big thinkers” will be at Parallels Summit 2011 later this month in Orlando, Florida. We’ll be flying out from sunny Orange County, California all the way to…sunny Orange County, Florida! If any of you business-types would like to mix and mingle with some of our business-types, this would be a great [...]
It’s no secret that all of us at DreamHost are HUGE fans of Linux. From our desktops to more than 3000 Debian-powered servers, Linux powers our global domination machine. But while most users are OK with merely using the operating system, we like to give back to the open-source community by donating time, money and [...]
We’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Matt Mullenweg. We love him because he’s a decent guy. And, oh yeah, he made this thing called WordPress. We hate him because he’s just so damn good looking. Today he stopped by our LA office to schmooze a bit. Look at that facial hair. Professional baseball players [...]
Any addressable device on the Internet has an IP address. Your home PC, your Xbox, your website…they’re all just a UNIQUE number on the Internet in the grand scheme of things. To be more accurate, they’re all one LONG number, punctuated with three periods: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. 32-bit, 4 byte addresses. Simple enough. Short enough to memorize. [...]
In December we announced our Call for Apps contest. We asked you to submit open-source web apps to our One-Click Installer and we then put the best of the best up for evaluation. Our customers then ranked their favorites on a 1 to 5 star scale throughout the month of January. The votes are in, [...]
