Who Is Hosting This

Did you know that DreamHost is owned by its employees? Now you do. According to their website: “The benefits are crazy, the people are friendly, and you can wear WHATEVER YOU WANT…except cologne. Wearing cologne in the DreamHost office is grounds for a firing. Or at least a solid 8 hours of harassment.” If you [...]

Just finished reading an interesting article titled: “What the Heck Happened to Our Attention Spans?” by Josh Catone from Sitepoint. Although theories that media has effected the average mind’s attention are nothing new, this post did have some interesting thoughts on the subject. And offers suggestions on how webmasters might utilize this research. Is the [...]

Although DreamHost offers 24/7 tech support by email;  customers who prefer to receive technical support via phone may be interested in “Callbacks”. Callbacks are not included in standard hosting plans, but can be added to your account for a small fee. Callbacks are requested through your account web panel. Log in to your account and [...]

Most domain registrars charge $4/year or a similar fee for Whois privacy protection. It’s free at DreamHost, which makes them appealing to some users for domain registrations. Why would you want your WHOIS domain information kept private? – To avoid junk mail & spam. – To keep competitors from reverse engineering your SEO techniques – [...]

DreamHost makes it super easy to remove or require the “www” from your domain name automatically. While some people prefer to not use “www” in their web site URL some prefer that it always be there. Whether it be for SEO purposes or just for aesthetics, you can easily set this up via your Web [...]

Today, I spent 10 minutes searching Google for the Official DreamHost Blog, before getting irritated and guessed the URL. It wasn’t in the even top 20 results for the phrase “DreamHost Blog”. A random site with a link pointing to THIS blog was in the top 20 results. Crazy, eh? Maybe it’s just a temporary [...]

Google Apps offers webmasters some pretty spiffy tools, such as email hosting for your domain, custom calenders, start pages and more. Even spiffier is that DreamHost has made integration and registration with Google Apps dead simple and can create neat subdirectories for the Google hosted content. Hurray! To get started using Google Apps with your [...]

Dreamhost is recognized as one of the top web hosts for good reason, they stand by their service and offer a money back guarantee. In case you haven’t heard, DreamHost offers the best (well, at least the longest) money back guarantee in the industry. With DreamHost, you get 97 days to decide whether you want [...]

If you think a DreamHost customer is behind illegal activities such as spamming, fraud, copyright infringement, etc… your first stop should be the Dreamhost Abuse Center. (Not the forums) The Abuse Center’s purpose is to assist anyone experiencing abusive activities originating from or associated with Dreamhost servers, and also educate DreamHost customers on acceptable practices [...]

One of the factors I research when shopping for web hosting is what kind of control panel for domain management they use. Plesk, ensim, and Direct Admin are common web administration packages used by webhosts with cPanel being the one I see advertised most.  Some web hosts, like DreamHost, use their own proprietary web panel. [...]