Over the past few months Dreamhost has been cracking down on customers who have been using large chunks of their web hosting space for their own personal files that have nothing to do with web sites.
According to the Dreamhost August Newsletter:

Now, you know how we give out a LOT of disk space with our hosting? [...]

Instead of guessing how many resources you will need when signing up for DreamHost’s VPS-ish service “DreamHost PS”, they now have a handy solution to help you decide how much memory you will need.
By giving new sign-ups a free week with the maximum amount of resources, DreamHost can then figure out exactly how many resources [...]

One of my favorite features as a happy DreamHost customer is their proprietary web panel.
When I was scouting for a new host to use as a secondary server ( I run 20ish websites, and don’t like to have all my eggs in one basket) I almost disregarded DreamHost because of my distaste of proprietary web [...]

If you have ever had to set up an SSL cert, I am sure you had experienced a bit of frustration and/or confusion over the process from purchasing the cert to having it working on your host’s server.
DreamHost in their ever-expanding arsenal of making life easier features recently announced they were taking out of the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]