Does your host have a blog? Surprisingly, many don’t. A blog is an excellent, free and easy way for a host to stay in contact with their clients at times other than when a trouble ticket is filed. It’s a chance to put a more human face on the company, let clients see what goes [...]
Times are tough, especially online, and everyone is looking to save a few dollars. Though hosting may not be your biggest expense, it certainly is one you probably wish you didn’t have to pay every month. But what if there was a way to cut or eliminating hosting bills without taking your site offline or [...]
Money is tight and everyone is looking for ways to cut corners. Whether you’re hosting an established site or just wanting to test the waters with a new one, everyone is looking to save a few dollars on hosting. However, no one wants to sacrifice speed or power. Cheap hosting that doesn’t doesn’t provide good [...]
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 [...]
If you have registered or host a domain with DreamHost and would like to host it with your .Mac/iWeb 08 account, you can do so using the following steps: The first step is to log into your .Mac/iWeb account page and then click the “Use personal domain” option – enter your domain name into the [...]
I just came across a handy tool for DreamHost users called ip-abuse-lookup.sh. This shell script analyzes error and access logs for a domain, looking for the IP addresses that have connected to your site the most often. It checks for IP addresses that cause a Concurrent Connection Limit Exceeded error, which is a strong indication [...]
DreamHost offers shell access, but it needs to be specifically enabled for each user. You can either create a new user with shell access enabled, or modify and existing user to have shell. Here’s how: Enabling Shell Access for an Existing User: Navigate to “USERS > MANAGE USERS” section of the web panel. Click the [...]
Uploading an entire site or script in a ZIP archive then decompressing via SSH is useful, time-saving, and increases your geek webmaster points by +5. Here’s how to do it: First you need the right tools and setup: Start by making sure you have Shell access enabled for your domain. You are also going to [...]