7First of all, I did admit that I used DreamHost web space for personal backups. It’s fast, much more scriptable than Amazon S3, and have lots of space in my $10/month web hosting package — why not?! Except it is against their ToS and they have been cracking down on users using their allocated space [...]
DreamHost Invitations – What’s That?!
Opened my DreamHost control panel today and found the Rewards Section is now completely different. A new item has been added — DreamHost Invitations, which I have no idea what it is, since I don’t currently have any of this special offerings. I have searched on Google, WHT and a few other blogs, and cannot [...]
DreamHost Enters Into Application Hosting
Yesterday on my personal blog, I wrote about WordPress 2.3.3 upgrade due to a security exploit, and one issue I wrote in the comment, is that there are just too many blogs out there installed by Fantastico and alike, that are never updated. They are often targeted by the hackers, employed by blackhat SEO, to [...]
DreamHost Billing Blunder – Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
Yes. Sure. Computers often crap themselves, but problem often exists between keyboard and chair, i.e. the actual users. Around 10 minutes ago an account executive at work called as all the site customisations are gone. It turns out she explicitly clicked on the option to wipe out all the customisation and had made no back [...]
Last Chance Getting $97 Off New DreamHost Accounts
The latest change to DreamHost promo code is about to make what I have written a year and half ago irrelevant. Effective next Tuesday, December 11th, $97 will no longer be the maximum discount a DreamHost promo code can give… it will be dropped to $50. Keep in mind, $97 is still the total value [...]
DreamHost Joined Private Server Hosting
“So, DreamHost has started their own Virtual Private Server hosting business.” “You kidding?!” “Yes, it is true!” From DreamHost Blog’s latest entry, What a CON!, where Josh Jones has again done what he does best — humiliating the whole HostingCon, companies such as Lunarpages, HostGator, Tier 1 Research and OpenHosting. Very enjoyable read for an [...]
Signing Up RegisterFly’s Ex-Customers
1By this time everyone should have already knew it — ICANN has terminated the accreditation agreement with RegisterFly because of the issues that I will not talk about here, but are thoroughly tracked and documented at RegisterFlies.com. The fiasco has caused 900,000+ domains in limbo over the past few weeks — people cannot log into [...]
Build for Flexibility, Buy for Economy
Jeff Atwood blogged about Google building their own servers instead of buying off-the-shelf boxes, probably to justify his over-the-top workstation at work. The argument is, Google built their own servers on plywood back in 1999. Google is still building their own servers today, 450,000 of them! Therefore, build your own PC is good! Pre-built might [...]
Offsite Backup, Take 2
Jeremy Zawodny’s blog post from early last month has prompted me to look at offsite backup solutions again. Currently I am backing up all my websites, from various servers and accounts, to my home server using rsnapshot, running at 4am every morning. So far so good, and I loves the flexibility of rsnapshot. I guess [...]
Happy Birthday DreamHost
DreamHost is turning 9, and has announced a few crazy things in its birthday bash.