Our first DreamUp was a lot of fun! Almost a dozen people gathered at a local restaurant. We had the entire 2nd floor to ourselves. Since we met on a Wednesday, the restaurant wasn’t too busy and they were happy to have us in that space. Truly a win-win. Two topics were on the agenda [...]
If youʼve had a wild and woolly WordPress problem at DreamHost in the last 8 months, Iʼve probably handled your support ticket. Iʼm the new WordPress Support / Community Specialist and Manager, which is a fancy way to say that if weʼre messing around with WordPress, Iʼm involved. I work closely with Dreamhost developers on all [...]
We all know how frustrating it can be when your site, email, or really any service you’re paying for, is down! While the DreamHost tech support staff handles many different areas of support, we understand that some issues are unmistakably more urgent than others. That’s where the Uptime Brigade (or UB) team comes in! Who [...]
For any music lover or guitar player out there reading this I highly recommend you check out our latest Brendan Burns! He is a very talented guitar player and I was so happy we had the chance to do an interview with him. Hi Brendan! Thank you again for taking the time to do an interview with us! Where [...]
Sould out at DreamCon What does it mean for your company culture when your company…sells out? I don’t know! I’ve never had to go through that whole ordeal. Many people have, though. Their experiences range from “awesome” to “awful.” What about when your company experiences explosive growth? I have gone through that. And oh, do [...]
You’ve probably experienced that sinking feeling. You turn on your computer, but instead of being greeted by your favorite, friendlystart up screen, you see an error message. Oh, @#$%^! We all take for granted that something with tons of complicated parts just works day in and day out. But, it’s happened – the dreaded day [...]
Is your website getting more traffic? Are your website sales growing each month? Is your app growing in popularity? If so, then you may be ready to upgrade to a Dreamhost VPS! At Dreamhost we offer three hosting solutions: shared hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated server hosting. A VPS server would be considered the in-between hosting option, [...]
I don’t want to brag, but I happen to have one of the coolest jobs in the world. I’m a QA engineer here at DreamHost, but what does that mean? I still get questions about it from time to time, and it’s easy to forget that the entire world doesn’t know all about software development [...]
DreamHosters delivered three presentations and a tutorial at PyCon 2013, and the videos are now online for everyone who couldn’t be there to see us in person. Better Documentation Through Automation: Creating Sphinx Extensions Sphinx is an incredibly useful tool for creating attractive documentation for your project, but if all you ever use it for [...]
Near the end of last year we announced our DreamUp program to everyone and have been searching high and low for the best leaders! We received so many inquires and have a bunch of leaders preparing to bring a DreamUp to a city near you! Tomorrow, March 20th, marks our very first DreamUp! This DreamUp [...]
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 29 – Apr 5) » The OpenStack Blog: [...] DreamHost’s collection of presentations from PyCon 2013 [...]