The DreamHost Site of the Month (DHSOTM) contest started in 1998 to honor the best sites among the ones they host.
Each month, one DreamHost customer gets their site anointed the Site of the Month; the winner being the site with the highest average vote with at least 10 votes when the newsletter is written. The [...]

If you haven’t already, you may want to check out and bookmark the official Dreamhost Discussion Forums. Although you’ll find some drivel and whining, there are generally a few good conversations taking place around the forums.
If you are a potential customer of Dreamhost, you may want to check out the Curious About Dreamhost? forum [...]

All DreamHost hosting packages include access to a free flash-based media player as well as an image rotator. This means you can easily (and awesomely) embed audio, video or picture slideshows into your website.
The Flash Media Player can only play videos in “FLV” format… but DreamHost allows you to convert your .avi, .mov, or .mpg [...]

DreamHost offers one click installs for a stack of open source software. Which makes it incredibly simple to get a fully functional database driven site up In 5 mins — without much hosting or programming knowledge.
Sweet, eh?
Dreamhost even has an “Easy Mode” for installing WordPress, Zenphoto, phpBB, and Drupal. In easy mode, Dreamhost handles [...]

Last year, Dreamhost announced that it has become carbon neutral. This means that Dreamhost has calculated it’s impact on everything that they use and leave behind from paper, to electricty, and even gas to drive to work, then purchase renewable energy credits and carbon credits to offset their companies personal impact on the environment.
You [...]

Did you try to view your website but all you get is this following error message?
Site Temporarily Unavailable
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this.
error id: “bad_httpd_conf“
Don’t panic.
This post will explain what a “bad_httpd_conf” means, and how to fix the problem.
While your gut reaction may be [...]

DreamHost now offer their own VPS product, DreamHost Private Servers.
Dreamhost Private Servers seem to exist somewhere between a shared hosting environment, and a VPS. A true VPS would also allow root access and the ability to run your own software on the server (such as cpanel, Plesk, etc).
With Dreamhost PS you don’t get [...]

Does Dreamhost allow reselling of their services?
Yes - While Dreamhost doesn’t offer specific reseller plans, customers may use any Dreamhost hosting plan for the purpose of reselling.
As long as you remain within your bandwidth, storage and CPU cycle quotes, any DreamHost user is allowed to use their account to resell hosting. If you are [...]

While researching DreamNut blog posts, we stumbled across this April Fools’ Day gem from 2006 in the DreamHost Wiki.

Los Angeles, CA - Web hosting provider DreamHost Web Hosting (dreamhost.com), announced on Friday it has decided to merge with Go Daddy corporation. The new company will be named Go Dream Daddy Host (GoDream-DaddyHost.com).
A related Go Daddy [...]

Pligg, the content management system that I co-founded nearly two years ago, has been added to the Dreamhost one click install program. For those of you who don’t know, Pligg is an open source CMS that lets you create a Digg-like site in just a few minutes. It’s a highly social CMS that generally relies [...]