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Most Popular WordPress Plugins

A couple of months ago we collected some data on how many WordPress-powered sites we host. We knew it had to be a pretty large amount because we see them constantly. It turns out that we are hosting nearly 500,000 WordPress websites! Out of about 1 million total domain names hosted, that means that almost [...]

What’s the Deal Apple?

Today apple approved a ping pong app for the iPhone and iPad. Almost two years ago I made exactly the same app! And it was rejected! And I know mine didn’t have any sort of iPad tie-in, but no fair, there WAS no iPad back then! So I say, Apple, you’re slipping. And I say [...]

One Million Domains

Well it’s finally happened. The stat-happy webhosting.info this month made it known that we now host over one million domains. A million! That’s a lot! I had a hard time visualizing “one million” so I turned to my old friend Google Image Search (with ‘resuse rights’ checked) and saw enough to make me realize that [...]

Sweat your way to free hosting

Do you live near Los Angeles and enjoy pooping fire? You’re in luck. Next week a small contingent of DreamHost employees will be at Orochon Ramen to test your mettle! Orochon is known for serving up big bowls of ramen that come in seven levels of spicy. In addition to those seven, there are two [...]

Yeah…about that downtime…

You may or may not have noticed that yesterday, www.dreamhost.com was offline and unreachable for the better part of 6 hours. We can’t let something like that go without an explanation. I should note that during this time no customer sites were affected (other than one – which I’ll get to) and the main “www.dreamhost.com” [...]

Donations for April

February through April we solicited donations from our customers for a worthy organization: Home for Women and Children of Shiprock, New Mexico. Home for Women and Children is a domestic violence and sexual assault shelter located on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. They have served the entire Navajo reservation – which covers approximately [...]

We’ve got 20 iPads…

…but not for long! We’re giving them all away to twenty lucky entrants in our Apple-A-Day Twitter contest! We had hoped to have these in our hands on the 3rd when everybody else did. Unfortunately Apple cancelled our first order, probably as a result of us ordering twenty when the stated limit was TWO. The [...]

iPad: iGlad or iSad?

Well, our contest should be up. I mean, the iPad came out a week ago. And the contest said it’d end when we got 20 (16GB wifi models). So, we must have them by now. You’d think. Well, I’m not sure what the hold up is. I mean, *I* got one no problem on launch [...]

Datacenter Innovation from DreamHost

Today we’re revealing some never-before seen photos of some of the darkened corners of our datacenters. It’s not something we’re proud of, but we intend to do something about it. You network admins know how it is. Sometimes a server dies and it’s just easier to leave it there and reuse its network cable without [...]

Ceph in the Linux kernel!

As of today, Linus has decided to merge our Ceph distributed file system into 2.6.34! Awesome.

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