34 Responses to “Get to Know Us!”

1. Nick Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 2:19 pm

   Christmas Wish List for DreamHost
   ———————————

   1. The ability to use lighttpd as a web server.
   2. Python upgraded to 2.5
   3. Availability of postgres as a database.
   4. One-click install of Trac

2. Nick Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 2:24 pm

   I forgot to add the following:

   5. SquirrelMail replaced with RoundCube

3. Andrew Revak Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm

   I will second the request for trac as a one click.

4. Jeff C. Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 2:53 pm

   Is Roundcube even out of beta yet?

   - Jeff

5. Story Told Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 3:03 pm

   My self (Peter) and the band (Stohttp://www.storytoldmusic.com/ry Told) might be coming out to this simply to learn about the approach we are taking. A marriage of music and technology, you could say.

   Perhaps we will meet you two (as we JUST signed up for DreamHost) there and chitchat about the future :)

6. Matt Nordhoff Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 3:12 pm

   It’s very easy to compile Python yourself. You just have to download, extract, configure (with –prefix=/home/you/local or something), make, make install*, add /home/you/local/bin to your path, and start using “#!/usr/bin/env python2.5″ in your scripts.

   With a one-click install of Trac, I think DH has said that Trac won’t work with the one-click install system easily.

   * Or make altinstall if you don’t want it to create a “python” hardlink pointing to “python2.5″.

7. Matthew Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 3:13 pm

   Yay trac!

   Roundcube is still in beta. I would like to see squirrelmail replaced with something else though.

8. Matt Nordhoff Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 3:14 pm

   Add /home/you/local/bin to your path before /usr/bin, of course.

   That was a lot of steps, but it’s really very easy.

9. Will Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 3:36 pm

   Any chance of getting audio or video of the the speech?

10. Nuno Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 4:36 pm

    Hey, don’t forget to put some cloth on before going to the speech :p LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

    Never saw such lighten up CEO’s :)

    Good luck, and I also would like to see that video!

    Bye!

    Nuno Oliveira

11. Nuno Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    WT… 2.0…
    So many typos in my last post. Sorry but it’s really late where I am, and I’m tired and sleepppyyyyyy zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

12. Eve Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 5:41 pm

    Dudes, bugger commenting about the technical and speech stuff, I think you’re both eye-candy of the highest order :D

13. Kim Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 6:26 pm

    Hey guys, have fun up here in Santa Clara — Would come and see you, but then I saw the $250 per day price tag, and… no. Too bad Great America won’t be open, you’ll be right next door.

14. Peter Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 6:34 pm

    Re: Trac, I tried the install instructions for the first time the other week and I got so lost and annoyed that I had to stop. Trac does some odd things.. it’s not an easy program to set up under a shared hosting environment (much less one-click install.) On top of that, their MySQL support is still listed as experimental, and of course we don’t run postgres. I suspect it’s going to be a while (if ever.)

15. Mike Bianco Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 8:53 pm

    The DreamTracInstall script worked wonderfully for me, requiring next to no effort on my part.

    Installing Trac w/o that script it a royal pain and took me around 6 hours to complete successfully.

16. Chuck Smith Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 3:56 am

    I hope we’ll be able to see it later on Youtube or Google Video! :)

17. gaoini Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 4:24 am

    Josh,
    I see you’re still proud of your pic that scored an 8 on Hot or Not back in ‘99!

18. Frank Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 9:28 pm

    @Mike Bianco

    Great link to the automated script to install Trac.

    It would seem to me that if a bash shell can be run to install Trac, that a One-click install should now be fairly start forward to create for DreamHost’s Panel system for all of us to use.

19. Babs Says:
    November 6th, 2006 at 2:17 am

    well, too damn slow!!
    teh junk mail filter either blocks or delets some incoming mails.. instead of delivering to junk mail folder!

    any idea?

20. hmm Says:
    November 6th, 2006 at 11:21 am

    “any idea?”

    Yeah, here’s one: Contact support through the proper channels, rather than make random posts on totally irrelevant blog posts.

    I know, it sounds crazy, but give it a try. It seems to work for thousands of other customers.

21. Tom Meirhoff Says:
    November 6th, 2006 at 10:50 pm

    “Hello! Is this the help desk??!?!”

    Ummmm, no…

22. Niclas Says:
    November 7th, 2006 at 3:12 pm

    My wishlist:

    1. Fix the slowass connection to Sweden (and europe?) – it’s not fair to have american friends browse your server fast as hell while I’m not getting speeds higher than 300kbps(down) and 100kbps(up)…

23. 2news2 Says:
    November 8th, 2006 at 2:48 am

    Any chance of getting audio or video of the the speech?

24. silly democrate Says:
    November 8th, 2006 at 8:29 am

    You boys figuring on bringing security with you…

25. Brett Says:
    November 8th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    IT BEGINS!

26. Brett Says:
    November 8th, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    IT HAS ENDED!

27. Vladimir Says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 5:54 am

    1. PostgreSQL will be good
    2. Trac as one-click install would be good
    3. Subversion from https would be good?

28. Barbara Says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    I am awaiting a new post with more information on how Josh and Dallas faired at ISPCON.

    I also think I need rss feeds of this blog to go to my text message on my cell phone…has anyone developed that yet?

    barb

29. Barbara Says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 1:20 pm

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30. Matty Says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 4:14 pm

    Some video would be cool!

31. DreamHost Blog » How to get cheap PS3s! Says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 11:19 pm

    [...] Nobody showed up at our talk. We’ll post a video when we get one from ISPCon. It’s too bad we don’t have one yet, because in my country, they would go crazy for my talk. Dallas, not so much… [...]

32. Muchiri Says:
    November 23rd, 2006 at 5:15 am

    Now that I live a few thousand miles away (Nairobi) I suppose meeting Josh and Dallas may not be on the cards…. But its good to know your speaking engagements are fast growing in number. Please prepare…somewhat…we’d hate for you to embarass all of us who preach ‘Dreamhost Rules!’.

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34. Dani Says:
    December 3rd, 2006 at 1:35 am

    creepy, looks like you work from home, in your underwear? lol – seriously, keep up the good work!