Who Is Hosting This

The WhoIsHostingThis.com TwitterBot has just launched. For those who unfamiliar with Twitter, it’s a microblogging service that lets users send 140 character messages to friends. Imagine a cross between Facebook status updates and your regular blog. Twitterbots let you perform ‘command line’-style operations in Twitter. You typically send a message, and get back a response [...]

I wanted to fancy-up our Twitter profile (@WhoIsHosting) with a custom look to match WhoIsHostingThis.com Within 20 minutes of Photoshopin� I had a background image ready for upload thanks to the following links: Check out this informative post from the CronCast blog, with dimensions and layout suggestions to create your own Twitter background. Or, if [...]

An interesting post and discussion titled “Ranking, SERPs, SEO Dead in 2009?” at Sitepoint got me thinking… Once upon a time, you could build a site about “foo”, fill it with invisible text containing the word “foo” and get in the top 10 results in the SE’s. Years later, if you could find enough pages [...]

When troubleshooting a non-responsive website, the first thing you need to know is “Is my site down for everyone, or just me?” Look: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com <— here is a website that can tell you just that — whether a website is down for just you, or really down for everyone. A related service can be found [...]

Eruby is a handy way to embed Ruby in HTML. In this tutorial, we will explain how to setup Eruby for DreamHost customers (though the instructions will probably work for other hosts as well). Setting up Eruby Use SSH to copy /usr/bin/eruby, and name that file eruby.cgi. Place eruby.cgi it in the root of the [...]

I just read an interesting post on the Official DreamHost Blog entitled “One-Click Mystery“. (the post had a chart — so I was immediately intrigued): Dallas Kashuba explained DreamHost users are using One-Clicks less and less, with newer customers using this feature significantly less than users who signed up in ’05/’06. “The clear trend we [...]

When troubleshooting your website, it is useful to know how many CPU resources are being consumed by that site. If you are a webmaster like me, you are likely to use your DreamHost account to host multiple websites. One of the problems an account with many hosted domains can have is tracking down which particular [...]