Attention All Content Provider People! We’re looking for smart folks who can offer tips, tricks and inspiration to DreamHost’s community of software and app developers and online small businesses. We know you are out there and we want you to join in the growing DreamScape contributor community! Sound like something you’d be interested in? Here’s [...]
Web servers have always been tasty targets for hackers because they’re fairly powerful computers, connected to very fast network connections. Web servers are generally quite secure on the system level, so hackers turned to looking for exploits in the code running websites on the server. In the early days of the web, it was mostly [...]
Let’s talk about time. Time is something we all wish we had more of. And online is no different than the real world. What’s this term “responsive” I keep hearing about? What does a “Bootstrap” do? Why do I want “LESS” CSS? That sounds “Sass”y! Most importantly, how will these things save me time? At [...]
I’ve been practicing coming up with attention-grabbing SEO junk titles. Whaddya think? A small contingent of DreamHosters were in Manhattan this week to attend CloudExpo East at New York’s Javits Convention Center. We figured that since we were out of town we might as well make the best of it, and for us that meant [...]
DreamHost has NOW added StopTheHacker to its Trusted Partner program as an additional way for customers to get the best possible protection for their Websites hosted with us. StopTheHacker is billed as “everything you need to protect your website and online reputation,” and we tend to agree. That’s why we’re doing two important [...]
If you missed Part One of this series, check it out here! Our actions are not meant to imply that we “believe” the complaining party; they’re just a defensive action to protect ourselves from liability. This is merely what the law allows us to do. Upon taking the alleged infringing content offline, we immediately write [...]
Many of you will have seen the furor in the media over the last 24 hours about the alleged U.S. government broad-based information collection program, apparently called Prism. Given the understandable concerns that our customers – and all free peoples of the world – have about privacy, I wanted to let our customers know that [...]
Speaker: Dan Johnson Topic: Intro to Version Control There are a lot of reasons as a developer to use version control. Have you ever lost code or had a backup that was too old? Have you ever wanted to experiment with a new feature without interfering with your live site? Have you ever wanted see [...]
We love WordPress around here. In fact, most of us use it for our own personal websites and it even powers DreamHost.com. We also host a lot of WordPress sites for all of you. At last count, we’re hosting over 750,000 individual WordPress sites. From hosting all those sites, we’ve learned a few things about [...]
Attention entrepreneurs, website designers, developers, and bloggers! Are you ready for a whole new way to WordPress? Introducing…DreamPress! DreamPress is a highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service that comes pre-configured to stand up to higher traffic loads and serve up server-intensive themes and plugins. This means it’s engineered for speed, advanced security, excellent reliability, [...]