Archive for the 'Policy Changes' Category

Promo Codes Max Discount Dropping to $50

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago (December 4th, 2007 at 2:53 pm PST)

Effective next Tuesday, December 11th, $97 will no longer be the maximum discount a DreamHost promo code can give.. it will be dropped to $50. Keep in mind, $97 is still the total value of a referral.. so if somebody signs up with your $50 promo code you’ll still get $47 ($97-$50) credited to your […]

Policy Clarification: Personal storage & back-ups…

Posted 7 months ago (October 17th, 2007 at 1:21 pm PST)

This is a clarification regarding existing DreamHost policies on the use of services for personal storage/back-up purposes. No service policy has been changed.
Please note that DreamHost services are intended for the purpose of hosting web sites (item #6, Material Products), and files uploaded to your accounts should be provided with the intent of distributing […]

Rewards policy update, DreamHost trademark usage

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago (December 29th, 2006 at 2:55 pm PST)

Just a heads-up for those using our popular DreamHost Rewards program!
Lately we’ve been noticing an increase in the number of people utilizing DreamHost Rewards - this is good! We’re happy that you guys are spreading the word.
However, we’ve also noticed a marked increase in people using the ‘DreamHost’ trademark in their domain names in an […]

First chance to donate to Defective By Design and Santa’s Helpers.

Posted 1 year, 7 months ago (October 3rd, 2006 at 3:50 pm PST)

Well, you missed it. We’ve switched charities now on the web panel to Defective by Design and Santa’s Helpers.
(We ended up getting $904.21 from 36 contributors for the WWF and $383.32 from 17 contributors for C3.) Whoa.

No more Miva, no more osCommerce, more Zen Cart!

Posted 2 years ago (May 2nd, 2006 at 9:38 am PST)

As you might have seen in the newsletter, we have stopped offering both the Miva e-commerce system (it was free on Code Monster and Strictly Business) and the osCommerce one-click install.
The reasons for this were many-fold, but mostly we felt that the open source package Zen Cart was a better alternative. It’s actually based on […]

Minor Change to Privacy Policy

Posted 2 years ago (May 2nd, 2006 at 9:34 am PST)

This is just a note to mention we’ve added the phrase (except in cases where required to by law by law enforcement agencies) to our privacy policy.
We felt it was important to make this clear, especially in light of our new Domain WHOIS Privacy feature. Although your contact information will not be made public to […]

New DreamHost Status

Posted 2 years, 1 month ago (April 14th, 2006 at 3:27 pm PST)

Welcome to the new and improved DreamHost off-network status page. This page will take the place of the previous status.dreamhost.com page as well as also host additional information about the technical goings ons behind the scenes at your favorite web host.