August 27th, 2008 . by Toni
Just ran across this post about the 7 must-have plugins available for WordPress. The first featured plugin is the All In One SEO Pack – which is a needed plugin if you want to have more flexiblity in optimizing your blog for search engines. Check out Tubetorials Video about the All In One SEO Pack: [...]
August 26th, 2008 . by Toni
Every DreamHost account features unlimited auto-responders. Which give you the option to create an automatic response email for every email address you host with DreamHost. This can be very useful for vacation messages, and a variety of other applications. Log into your web panel and see the Auto-responders features under Mail > Autoresponders. DreamHost makes [...]
August 25th, 2008 . by Claire
Dreamhost is a great hosting company, but some of its features are unusual. Finding the error log for a site can be difficult. Don’t give up. Dreamhost error log files are easy to download when you know how to access them. Downloading Your Dreamhost Error Log To view your log, you will need to use [...]
August 22nd, 2008 . by Toni
Looks like Olympic Gold Medalist Nastia Liukin is hosted at DreamHost. When she won the gold, her website was flooded with traffic — read the full story on the DreamHost blog about how tech support responded to keep the site running while it was being slammed with traffic. In other news, DreamHost was named as [...]
August 22nd, 2008 . by Toni
Who Do Rockstar Bloggers Host With? is an interesting read about the top 100 blogs and who they use as their hosting provider. A DreamHost customer, Jauhari.net made the list at #23 — Congrats Nurudin! Who is Hosting This? conducted the study based on technorati ranks and their own spiffy widget that allows you to [...]
August 15th, 2008 . by Toni
DreamHost recently announced a handy addition to their “one-click” software installs & upgrades. Now you can upgrade all of your software (like WordPress, Joomla, etc.) — all at the same time with just one click. Spiffy! If you are a WordPress power-user, with multiple blogs like me; I’m sure you can appreciate how this can [...]
August 14th, 2008 . by Toni
You could spend hundreds to thousands of dollars a year in newsletter services, but with DreamHost it’s free! Every DreamHost plan comes with unlimited “announcement lists”, which are email lists that you can allow visitors to your site to subscribe to through a simple HTML form. You may then periodically email everyone on the list [...]
August 13th, 2008 . by Toni
In a previous post I explained DreamHost’s “Snapshot Back-ups” — which are pretty spiffy. But did you know that you can backup your entire DreamHost account with one click? Just log into your web panel under Home > Backup Your Account. Push the shiny button to request a complete account backup of your entire DreamHost [...]
August 12th, 2008 . by Claire
Over time, the number of WordPress comments in your database can grow at an alarming rate. On a popular blog, you could find yourself with thousands of comments sitting in the ‘Awaiting Moderation’ queue. Unfortunately, WordPress provides no simple way of cleaning up comments. There’s a mass edit tool, but it’s not particularly versatile. In [...]
August 11th, 2008 . by Toni
Oooohhhh…. Ahhhhh…. a new look for DreamHost.com According to this month’s newsletter, DreamHost spent $13.52 to update their look: Looks like DreamHost PS is now available to the public, as well. “Hate it or love it, you’ve got to admit it is new.” Related articles by Zemanta DreamHost Invitations (qualitynonsense.com)