Archive for the 'DreamHost Features' Category

Donate to Camp Laurel and Room to Read

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (July 1st, 2007 at 1:27 pm PST)

Tomorrow we’ll be changing the charities at our Charity Area, so it’s your last chance to donate to Camp Laurel and/or Room to Read and have your donation matched by us!
So far we’ve received 18 donations for $591.21 for Camp Laurel and 24 donations for $990.73 for Room to Read, not too shabby, but we [...]

One-Click Installs: Gallery updated to 2.2.2

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (June 25th, 2007 at 5:10 pm PST)

Sorry about the delay on this one! This is a minor stability revision, and you can go here to determine whether or not you need to upgrade:
Gallery 2.2.2 Changelog
I’d post the upgrade instructions again, but you can just read them from the last post!

One-Click Installs: Wordpress updated to 2.2.1

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (June 22nd, 2007 at 6:42 pm PST)

The Wordpress team released a new version with a couple bug and security fixes, which you can read more about here:
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/wordpress-221/
If you installed Wordpress via our one-click installer, you can update to this latest version by logging in to panel.dreamhost.com, clicking on the Goodies tab and then going to the One-Click Installs page. You should [...]

SSL certificate renewal for most customers

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (June 17th, 2007 at 7:13 pm PST)

Our current “mail.dreamhost.com” certificate used by most of you for SSL email is up for renewal on Friday! We will be replacing it with a newer, better certificate with the name:
*.mail.dreamhost.com
It is also signed by an internal certificate authority, “New Dream Network Certificate Authority”. This means two things! First, most of you will get a [...]

New Feature: Disallow FTP on Shell users

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago (June 8th, 2007 at 5:12 pm PST)

If you have users that you only use with SSH and/or SFTP you can now disallow FTP logins altogether from our web control panel. To do this, simply go here:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=users.users&
Then edit the user you want to change, and toggle the ‘Disallow FTP?’ checkbox. Save the user and the change will go live in [...]

One-Click Install: Wordpress updated to version 2.2

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago (May 16th, 2007 at 9:56 am PST)

This is a pretty hefty feature upgrade which you can read more about here:
Wordpress 2.2 Changelog
As always, you can upgrade your current one-click install of Wordpress by logging in here:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=goodies.installer&
And then clicking on the “Upgrade to 2.2″ link to the right of your existing Wordpress install. If you have any problems with this upgrade breaking [...]

New Support Form

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago (May 7th, 2007 at 2:23 pm PST)

Some of you may have already noticed, we have a new support form.
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=support.msg
It still has some bumps that need smoothing out, and it does require javascript! Some tests results are still being refined, and we plan to add more in the future. Suggestions and comments are welcome.

Support Response Times Decrease

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago (May 3rd, 2007 at 1:55 pm PST)

The average support message response time has improved significantly for 2007 at DreamHost. Today has been especially good with almost immediate responses to all incoming messages. By continuing to grow the team at a very fast pace, while providing better and better tools to the support technicians, we have been able to continue to improve [...]

One-Click Installs: Wordpress updated to 2.1.3, Gallery updated to 2.2.1

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago (April 4th, 2007 at 9:22 am PST)

Here’s the update info:
Amazing Wordpress 2.1.3 Update Info!
Amazing Gallery 2.2.1 Update Info!
For Wordpress, it’s basically more exploit fixes and proofing, while Gallery 2.2.1 is a relatively minor bugfix release. Log in at the link below and click the upgrade links if you wish to perform these upgrades:
Dreamhost Panel One-Click Install Page
Be ready to restore your [...]

Last chance to donate to MIT and Save Darfur!

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago (March 29th, 2007 at 1:32 pm PST)

Just reminding everybody.. in the next couple of days we’ll be changing the charities we have up at our panel that you can donate to directly via your hosting bill.. currently MIT OpenCourseWare and SaveDarfur.org!
So far we’ve had 27 donations totalling $689.19 to MIT and 41 donations totalling $1694.45 to Save Darfur … we can [...]