Today marks a big milestone for DreamHost – the beta launch of our latest cloud service, DreamCompute! Our development and engineering teams have worked hard on this next generation public cloud computing service for the last year, and we’re now ready to invite customers to sign up to try it out. We’ll be gradually letting [...]
What does DreamHost love more than anything in the world? Cheap love and free beer… Or was that free love and cheap beer? Hmmm. Either way, we’re big fans of both combinations. What’s our next great passion? Apple sauce! No wait, I meant open source. Uhhg, I think I’ve had too much cheap love to [...]
DreamHost is proud to announce our new partnership with CloudFlare! All DreamHost hosting customers can start using CloudFlare today in conjunction with their DreamHost accounts – FREE! Not sure what, exactly, CloudFlare is? Well sit back, relax, grab a beverage, and get ready to learn! When your site is protected by CloudFlare your web pages [...]
We take uptime extremely seriously at DreamHost. In our never-ending quest for zero downtime and an unbreakable network, we’ve recently made some huge investments in hardware and in personnel designed to strengthen our core. Like Bowflex. There’s a lot of work to be done, and just not enough hours in the day to do it [...]
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a bit bigger, darling.” A guy sitting in first class on an airplane whose mind was inside several layers of dreams once said that. People can get the itch to move on to a new organization for a number of reasons. Lacking growth potential, working on boring projects, being [...]
Hi, this is a repost from one year ago, for all those customers who have signed up in the meantime… thanks! Hi, it’s Josh.. some of you old timers may remember me as the guy who used to write the newsletters and most of blog posts around here. You may have noticed that it was [...]
Triple sevens! Most people visiting Vegas would wish for nothing more than to see this line up before their trip is over. It’s a good omen, a lucky number, and instills an emotional response from gambling addicts. On the other hand with a Linux server, it’s a dreadful thing to have sitting around. I’m talking [...]
Scalable Virtual Private Servers from DreamHost are a great way to ensure that you’re never paying more or than you need for your hosting. You might want more power than shared hosting can provide, but may not really need the resources and cost associated with a dedicated server. With a VPS from DreamHost you can [...]
There have been some recent allegations stating that a handful of compromised websites on our network involved with domain traffic “hijacking” was somehow connected to the illegal intrusion in January that caused us to initiate a complete password reset of all FTP and SSH users. An extensive investigation has revealed that no customer FTP or [...]
In the DreamHost spirit of transparency and openness, I’m providing this update on our blog on the security issue yesterday. It’s necessarily pretty dry and factual, unlike most DreamHost posts, but that’s important to communicate as much detail as possible while not disclosing the inner workings of our security defenses. The bad news is that [...]