http://blog.dreamhost.com Tales From the Inside! Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We held a t-shirt design contest not too long ago and the response was overwhelming. After wading through hundreds of entries we've finally narrowed down the winners. We assigned each entry a year representative of its style - one for each year we've been in business. Every DreamHost employee ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/11/18/and-the-winners-are/ For some reason .info is the only TLD besides .com/net/org that we offer for registration (of course you can host any domain) at DreamHost. They were just one of the first "new" TLDs I suppose. Back before we got burnt out on them all. Of course, there were a few people who ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/11/06/info-redo/ We had our annual Halloween party this Saturday, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, famous from such movies as Pretty Woman, Beverly Hills Ninja, and Upscale Bangers 38. Clearly, there were a lot of great costumes, none more betterer than the classic "Sunburned Surf Vampire". Well, there was one more betterer. We had ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/11/03/nightmare-host-2009/ Back in April, Yahoo announced that it would be closing GeoCities "later this year". Last week they set a date: October 26, 2009. One week from today! This is your one-and-only reminder that DreamHost is offering two free years of hosting for GeoCities refugees. When the clock strikes midnight on ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/10/19/hey-geocities-refugees-were-here-for-you/ Today DreamHost turns 62 years old*! It's hard to believe, but we've watched the hosting industry blossom and grow over the course of 62 grand years - that's longer than any other web host in the industry. Some would say that's older than the Internet itself, but they ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/09/21/the-happy-dreamhost-62nd-birthday-contest/ Oh, I've been around. And not just the block, and not just the bend. I've been to like, 49 U.S. states. And like, 38 countries. And I know cause like, I've got a spreadsheet. And I've seen some crazy crapola on those travels. I've seen it rain for three days straight in Riyadh and ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/09/16/the-traveler/ We're big fans of Wordpress here at DreamHost.  It powers this website and many of our own personal websites.  It's also probably the number one most popular web application running on our servers. It's so popular in fact that it's increasingly become the target of security exploits.  Fortunately for all of ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/09/06/update-your-wordpress/ Whoops, there hasn't been a blog post in a while. It's not that we haven't been doing anything interesting in the last month, it's just how could I top the ping pong one? And, I guess we haven't really done anything SUPER interesting in the last month... just a lot of little ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/07/31/the-july-mini-roundup/ 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/