People in Vietnam love us. They love us so much that the entire country has signed an agreement with Indonesia and Romania to collectively select DreamHost as their exclusive Internet partner for testing stolen credit card numbers. Or at least it feels that way. That’s a funny way of putting things, but it’s no joke! [...]
A long time ago in a data center not so far, far away… We are proud to announce (again) the re-launch of our Dedicated Server product line. It has been about five years since we last offered a Dedicated solution – an eon in the Internet universe! [...]
Uptime is everything in this business. Unfortunately, Monday was kind of a rough day for us. You may have noticed that your sites were unreachable for most of the day. The last time something so wide-reaching and disruptive happened was less than a year ago when we discovered, quite out of the blue, that we [...]
Your boss is an idiot. You, on the other hand, are not. When tasked with launching your company’s four-page website, you knew exactly what you needed: basic web hosting. Somewhere. Anywhere. Your boss, on the other hand, was not satisfied with simple web hosting. He told you he wanted “a server”. By which he meant [...]
In the world of high-capacity data storage, our open-source filesystem, Ceph, is a game-changer. And anytime anyone changes the game, people tend to get confused. And needy. We’re pleased to announce that we’ll soon be offering advanced corporate and enterprise-level technical support for Ceph implementations. This includes: Consulting and advisory services Custom Engineering Design and [...]
Hi, it’s Josh.. some of you old timers may remember me as the guy who used to write the newsletters and most of blog posts around here. You may have noticed that it was about a year ago (exactly), that I stopped. The reason was that my wife and I had our first child, a [...]
Today Automattic launched Jetpack, a WordPress plugin that “supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com”. Their words, not ours. Hence the quotes. Jetpack is a collection of eight plugins that together combine to strengthen the WordPress core and make it even more powerful. Think of it as an expansion pack. [...]
Fate smiles upon the inconvenienced! If you weren’t able to make it out to Los Angeles last weekend to see us at SCALE 9x, don’t worry. We’re coming to Santa Clara this week to speak at CloudConnect! DreamHost cofounder Sage Weil will be presenting Creating a Storage Cloud with Ceph. He’ll give a primer on [...]