Hello everybody! I’m John and I help manage the relatively new “Customer Experience” team here at DreamHost. I’ve been at DreamHost for over 13 years in total and the vast majority of that time has been spent interacting with our customers. When the opportunity arose to help build a new team that is focused on making [...]
I stubbled upon Angsty G’s website when I was getting ready to post it on our Daily Dream sometime last year. I immediately become obsessed with her work! Even better… she is a DreamHost customer! I was so happy when she agreed with so much enthusiasm to do a customer spotlight with us! Where can [...]
Search engine marketing: Where do you begin? Do you know where you are? Do you know where you can be found? Do you know where you want to be? These are all great questions for website owners to ask and discover the answers to when it comes to search engine marketing. Don’t worry. We’re going [...]
When I started at DreamHost six years ago, the development team was fairly non-existent compared to other web hosts. If you were a customer before 2007, you might be surprised to hear that. There were always so many new features mentioned in that crazy monthly newsletter. We must have had tons of people working day [...]
No web-host is perfect. Every host tries to do their absolute best for their customers. And a large customer-base means larger responsibilities, so DreamHost takes a unique approach managing problems on our network. We love to hire nerds, or at least people who are passionate about what they do. Everyone at DreamHost is given an [...]
Come learn how to play nice with MySQL Servers at DreamCon! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to crash an entire MySQL server with your bad queries? Probably not, but the truth is there are many people out there who manage to do just that. I’m sure you don’t want to be [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’re used to having the world at your fingertips. In fact, you expect it. Everything you connect to is right there – friends, family, news, shopping. You get instant gratification in your digital life, and when one aspect isn’t instant, it sticks out like a sore thumb. We feel your [...]
Our very own DreamHoster, Mark McClain, who is also an OpenStack Project Technical Lead had an awesome interview with Mirantis! In case you haven’t had a chance to read it, check it out below! OpenStack Project Technical Lead Interview Series #1: Mark McClain, OpenStack Networking Project by: David M. Fishman We are introducing the first [...]
Databases are everywhere. In fact, they’re so widely used in web software that nearly everyone with a website will have to deal with them at some point. At DreamHost, we use MySQL for databases. With the unlimited number of databases included with shared, VPS and dedicated hosting, there’s a good amount of flexibility in how [...]
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 [...]