http://blog.dreamhost.com Tales From the Inside! Tue, 13 May 2008 20:07:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As of right now all DreamHost customers have a new option for hosting Ruby on Rails applications. Awhile back I asked for a better way to host Rails applications on a shared server, and the answer has come in the form of Passenger (also known as mod_rails)! From now on, deploying ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/05/13/passenger-for-ruby-on-rails/ Yesterday I noticed Jason and Jeremy were both wearing the same shirt! I'd call it a coincidence, except... they're roommates! Awwwwwww.. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/05/07/did-you-guys-coordinate-that/ Hey, you know what'd be fun on a boring Monday in May? A little role play! And I'm not talking about 12-sided dice and renaissance faires either, I'm just talking about some simple role reversal. More specifically, I'm going to complain to you about a web host! So, about three years ago I ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/05/05/may-de-mayo/ Today is a day for celebrating the air that we breathe, the land beneath our feet, and all the creatures that call this blue ball 'Home.' We're really sitting on something special because from what I've heard there's not a lot of blue balls out there. Today is Earth Day! And to celebrate, ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/04/22/lets-get-earthy/ Okay, nothing silly this time, I promise... Some of you may have noticed that we've been having what a problem that is, although maybe not the worst in DreamHost history, definitely in the top 5. There has been a DreamHost Status post about it, but it's been going on so long, there ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/04/07/another-anatomy/ Well, it was a little over two months ago that we had what I think is pretty safe to call the worst disaster in DreamHost history. In retrospect to me, it's kind of funny that the worst disaster didn't turn out to be due to a security breach, a power outage, ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/03/21/good-reminiscing-friday/ It's hot in LA! Which makes me think of summer! Which makes me think of interns! Which makes me think of hot summer interns! Which makes me think of how sad I am to not be in Advertising! Now, I know there are lots of other cool-sounding summer marketing internships available around this Internet world ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/03/15/friendless-summer/ First Republic Bank just opened a new branch a block from my house. I was kinda bummed, because I was hoping the lot would become something cool like a Starbucks or a McDonald's. Anyway, First Republic has the ad you see above, and some other eerily similar ones, in the window. ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/03/07/stock-tips/ The other day I finally re-opened my favorite web browser and I noticed that some prankster had changed my home page to JoshJonesIsYourNewBicycle.com! I was of course outraged, and since nobody spoke up, I had no choice but to have the entire admin staff TERMINATED! Just a few days later, as the ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/02/27/people-power/ I have been to the future. It's a very well known future, one everybody knows is coming, and yet, it is still, frustratingly, not here. It's not the future of nano-bots, flying cars, and hamburger toothpaste that some predict. Nor is it the future of sex-bots, self-driving cars, and hamburger frosties that ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/02/15/zero-c/