Your customers are mobile. So, it’s time for your business to go mobile. Ready, set, develop, right? Not so fast. First, let’s address the ongoing debate of when to build a mobile app versus a mobile site. Is one better than the other? Does it make sense to build both? There aren’t clear-cut answers to [...]
These days, everyone has a blog. Whether it’s personal, informational or for marketing your business, your blog will benefit from good organization. Good blog organization ensures your readers can find information quickly, and makes it easier for search engines to crawl and deliver your content, which in turn brings you more readers! As a website [...]
The following is an excerpt from the July 2012 DreamHost customer newsletter: The Alligator King loved his swamp. It was beautiful and full of other nice alligators, all very skilled at doing alligator things. As its population grew the Alligator King was pleased to see the boundaries of his kingdom expand with the needs of [...]
Let’s talk passwords, those little secret codes that let a computer verify you are who you say you are. Without these little guys anyone could walk up to a computer system and say “ I’m John Smith! Let me into my account,” and a computer would happily accept that as good enough Thank goodness that [...]
Shhhh! Do you hear that? Listen! Close your eyes and really concentrate. That, my friend, is the sound of about two thousand oversized nerd guts clenching in feverish anticipation of the Southern California Linux Expo! We can count ourselves among the clenched faithful as both DreamHost and the Ceph team are sponsors of the show [...]
For the second year in a row DreamHost has been named to the Orange County Register’s list of Top Workplaces! We’re so excited we even wrote a press release, so you know it’s a big deal. The OC Register, in association with Workplace Dynamics, collected anonymous surveys from over 18,500 employees across 119 companies from [...]
Amazon.com seems to have a goal of becoming the “search engine for anything you want to buy”, but is that really a good thing for their users? For those of you who don’t use Amazon regularly, in addition to the products they sell themselves their website lists items for sale by merchants other than Amazon [...]
The following is a post by guest blogger Kim Terca.Kim is a tech analyst and DreamHost consultant. This won’t come as much of a surprise to DreamHost users, but e-commerce sales are on the rise. (Hey, that’s why you have a website, isn’t it?). DreamHost recently polled their customers to ask about the e-commerce activities [...]
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS, not to be confused with the easter egg people, PAAS), what distinguishes them from each other, and how they all fit into the more general concept of Cloud Computing. Software as a Service [...]
Psst. Hey, Mac. Have I got a deal for you. Yes, you! If you’ve not considered signing up for dedicated hosting with us in the past, now might be a good time…to start considering it! For a limited time we’re offering our Blue Moon 4 dedicated server package (normally $169/mo) for the price of a [...]