Google released its newest project Knol to the public.
According to the Google Blog: “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects.” But many observers are calling Knol the “Wikipedia killer”.

The main difference between Knol and Wikipedia is that every knol will have an author or group of [...]

Did you know that DreamHost is owned by its employees?
Now you do.
According to their website: “The benefits are crazy, the people are friendly, and you can wear WHATEVER YOU WANT…except cologne. Wearing cologne in the DreamHost office is grounds for a firing. Or at least a solid 8 hours of harassment.”
If you are interested check [...]

Most domain registrars charge $4/year or a similar fee for Whois privacy protection. It’s free at DreamHost, which makes them appealing to some users for domain registrations.

Why would you want your WHOIS domain information kept private?
- To avoid junk mail & spam.
- To keep competitors from reverse engineering your SEO techniques
- To protect your online [...]

DreamHost makes it super easy to remove or require the “www” from your domain name automatically. While some people prefer to not use “www” in their web site URL some prefer that it always be there.
Whether it be for SEO purposes or just for aesthetics, you can easily set this up via your Web Panel [...]

Google Apps offers webmasters some pretty spiffy tools, such as email hosting for your domain, custom calenders, start pages and more.
Even spiffier is that DreamHost has made integration and registration with Google Apps dead simple and can create neat subdirectories for the Google hosted content. Hurray!

To get started using Google Apps with your website:
- [...]

If you think a DreamHost customer is behind illegal activities such as spamming, fraud, copyright infringement, etc… your first stop should be the Dreamhost Abuse Center. (Not the forums)

The Abuse Center’s purpose is to assist anyone experiencing abusive activities originating from or associated with Dreamhost servers, and also educate DreamHost customers on acceptable practices for [...]

Dreamhost provides a free and automated site backup and restoration system called Snapshots. Though this service is not guaranteed by DreamHost it deserves a mention and some praise as such backups are almost unheared of in a shared hosting environment.
So if you accidentally erased a needed file off the server, messed up your site with [...]

One of the unique benefits of being a Dreamhost customer is the power to suggest changes and improvements, then vote on proposed suggestions. Votes strongly influence what gets implemented by Dreamhost.
So, if you think Dreamhost should install new software, update policies, add a new feature, or make any other changes Dreamhost Suggestions give you the [...]

The wiki serves as DreamHost’s web hosting manual, but also contains a lot of non DreamHost-specific information too.
The community supported wiki contains tons of information about working with Dreamhost from basic FAQs to detailed tutorials. If you have a question about your hosting, you can probably find the answer in the wiki.
Popular sections in the [...]

Many users have a story about why they love DreamHost’s customer service. This DreamHost-themed meme lists some of our favorite reasons why DreamHost rocks.

Forget other web hosts with too-good-to-be-true introductory offers. Free software! Free domain transfers! We’ll send your mother-in-law flowers!
Enough. For us, the big difference with DreamHost is the sheer [...]