http://blog.dreamhost.com Tales From the Inside! Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:49:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey! Big props to the dozen or so DreamHosters who showed up and got $61 of credit to their DreamHost account.. I scored 29 points total, Micah 32! Unfortunately, Micah didn't get to move on to the next round, tomorrow at 11am in the Venetian (ballroom C). BUT I DID. All thanks to my ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/06/26/round-two/ You may remember Dream Machine from such sports as basketball, basketball, softball, and basketball. But what you may NOT remember is that we got in trouble with our building when they saw our elevator lobby table tennis shenanigans. And what you couldn’t possibly remember, is that Micah and I have been working ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/06/25/the-new-dream-machine/ A couple of months ago I announced our new API, as well as a crrrrrazy contest to go with it. Well, the contest has been over for three weeks now... which, even I grudgingly agree, is more than enough time for my trusty band of interns (no offense Greg) to review ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/06/22/big-boy-time-is-up/ A couple of weeks ago I posted Broken Browsers Part One, which I can only pray gave you ample preparation for today's post, Broken Browsers Part Two! The truth is, not that much is broken in browsers these days. They've been around 15 some years now, so it's not the biggest ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/05/28/broken-browsers-part-two/ Web browsers have been around for a pretty long time now. Web browsers have been broken for a pretty long time now. Bring on the rotten tomatoes, but I still predominantly use Internet Explorer because it is still the least broken browser when it comes to one of the most important features ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/05/13/broken-browsers-part-one/ Way back in March, one of our sysadmins Terri attended the Australian linux conference to give a talk about sysadminning at DreamHost as well as the open source distributed file system Sage's been working on called Ceph! Blah blah blah, on to the IMPORTANT stuff. Apparently there's some country or island or ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/05/11/tuz-tatz/ While we do offer telephone-based technical support in the form of callbacks, we don’t have a public phone number that customers can dial for technical support. We do have a phone number, but it's reserved for vendors and other specific applications - not technical support. From time to time customers may find ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/27/the-saddest-voicemail-youll-ever-hear/ Well, that's it. Yahoo! is finally shutting down GeoCities. This is a sad moment for the Internet in general, and it's especially sad for us. I've always felt a sort of special connection with GeoCities.. lemme 'splain you. GeoCities was one of the first web hosts on the Internet, being started as ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/24/theyre-internet-history/ Awhile back I posted a little overview of organizational democracy in Democracy at DreamHost. Now, less than 5 months later, we have the honor of appearing on the WorldBlu Most Democractic Workplaces List for a second year in a row.  WorldBlu's entire purpose is to educate people about organizational ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/14/democracy-at-dreamhost-part-2/ I don’t know if you’d consider DreamHost as one of the BIG BOYS of the Internet... you know, the Googles, the Amazons, the eBays, the Facebooks, the Twitters. Well, I sure wouldn’t. At least not based on media coverage. Or coolness. Or revenues. (Except maybe Twitter, where I assume we’re blowing ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/09/big-boy-time/