Over the past few years, we’ve talked a great deal about the importance of using a content delivery network (CDN) to speed up your site and buffer it against traffic spikes. We’ve also looked at the different kinds of CDNs, how W3 Total Cache makes it easy to integrate a CDN into your WordPress blog and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The DreamHost Site of the Month (DHSOTM) contest started in 1998 to honor the best sites among the ones they host. Each month, one DreamHost customer gets their site anointed the Site of the Month; the winner being the site with the highest average vote with at least 10 votes when the newsletter is written. [...]
All DreamHost hosting packages include access to a free flash-based media player as well as an image rotator. This means you can easily (and awesomely) embed audio, video or picture slideshows into your website. The Flash Media Player can only play videos in “FLV” format… but DreamHost allows you to convert your .avi, .mov, or [...]