Archive for August, 2008
Killer Wordpress Plugins
Just ran across this post about the 7 must-have plugins available for Wordpress. The first featured plugin is the All In One SEO Pack - which is a needed plugin if you want to have more flexiblity in optimizing your blog for search engines.
Check out Tubetorials Video about the All In One SEO Pack:
I thought [...]
Every DreamHost account features unlimited auto-responders. Which give you the option to create an automatic response email for every email address you host with DreamHost.
This can be very useful for vacation messages, and a variety of other applications. Log into your web panel and see the Auto-responders features under Mail > Autoresponders.
DreamHost makes it [...]
Where is My DreamHost Error Log?
Looking for your error logs for a DreamHost hosted site? We found them and thought someone else out there might eventually be lost looking for the same thing.
To view your error log you will need to log in via FTP to: logs/yourdomain.com/http/
Logs are rotated every night so that access.log and error.log only contain today’s logs, [...]
News from the DreamHost Blog
Looks like Olympic Gold Medalist Nastia Liukin is hosted at DreamHost.
When she won the gold, her website was flooded with traffic — read the full story on the DreamHost blog about how tech support responded to keep the site running while it was being slammed with traffic.
In other news, DreamHost was named as one of [...]
Who Do Rockstar Bloggers Host With? is an interesting read about the top 100 blogs and who they use as their hosting provider.
A DreamHost customer, Jauhari.net made the list at #23 — Congrats Nurudin!
Who is Hosting This? conducted the study based on technorati ranks and their own spiffy widget that allows you to look [...]
One Click Script Upgrades
DreamHost recently announced a handy addition to their “one-click” software installs & upgrades.
Now you can upgrade all of your software (like Wordpress, Joomla, etc.) — all at the same time with just one click.
Spiffy!
If you are a Wordpress power-user, with multiple blogs like me; I’m sure you can appreciate how this can save you time [...]
DreamHost Announcement Lists
You could spend hundreds to thousands of dollars a year in newsletter services, but with DreamHost it’s free!
Every DreamHost plan comes with unlimited “announcement lists”, which are email lists that you can allow visitors to your site to subscribe to through a simple HTML form. You may then periodically email everyone on the list things [...]
‘One-Click’ Web Server Backups
In a previous post I explained DreamHost’s “Snapshot Back-ups” — which are pretty spiffy. But did you know that you can backup your entire DreamHost account with one click?
Just log into your web panel under Home > Backup Your Account. Push the shiny button to request a complete account backup of your entire DreamHost account. [...]
I’ve been doing some webmaster maintenance - backups, software upgrades, etc. and ran into a Wordpress install that had over 20,000 comments sitting in moderation. Ooops.
Unfortunately, Wordpress provides no simple way of cleaning up huge amounts of comments. Mass edit mode is limited to the number of entries that can be deleted at once. Mass [...]
DreamHost.com Re-Design
Oooohhhh…. Ahhhhh…. a new look for DreamHost.com
According to this month’s newsletter, DreamHost spent $13.52 to update their look:
Looks like DreamHost PS is now available to the public, as well.
“Hate it or love it, you’ve got to admit it is new.”
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