DreamHost is coming to San Diego and we’d like to see you there! http://www.dreamhostparty.com/ HostingCon 2011 will be taking place at the San Diego convention center August 8th-August 11th. We’ll be there too, in large numbers, Tusken Raider-style. We’re throwing a party Monday night and you are absolutely invited. We’re looking to connect with vendors, [...]
Next week we’ll be attending the Open Source convention by which all others are measured: O’Reilly’s OSCON 2011. The OSCON schedule is extensive and, quite frankly, a little overwhelming! DreamHost’s own Ben Cherian will be making appearances on stage at two sessions: Prying Open the Cloud with Dell Crowbar and OpenStack 10:40am Thursday, 07/28/2011 Location: [...]
Attention Silicon Valley! Hide your women, children and Strawberry Pop-Tarts because DreamHost is coming to town next week for the OpenStack Summit. Seven of our developers, system administrators, and co-founders will take advantage of Southwest’s brand-new open canopy planes to parachute drop, 101st Airborne style, onto the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara. After falling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have a couple of talks coming up at events that you might be interested in. The first one is at WorldBlu Live , coming up in New York City next week, Thursday and Friday October 16-17, 2008. In their words: WorldBlu LIVE is the only conference in the world that connects you to directly [...]
Well, it wasn’t a TOTAL con. At least Dallas and I didn’t pay anything to go. He was on a panel about green hosting, and I got free admission by signing myself up as “press”. I guess in a way I’m paying now via this feeling of obligation to blog-post about it though. Anyways, now [...]