Looks like all things Dreamhost are toast, or at least stale bread; neither my sites, nor webmail, nor their control panel are coming up.

I suspect someone tripped over something in their Brand New Data Center™.

Update: Back up in 40 minutes. I’ve seen worse.

Data center bad example of the day, DreamHost for bumbling a data center move bad enough to leave customers down for days. It’s obvious that they can’t manage a data center move, the technical quotes make me wonder about their network diagnostic skills.

The second bad example comes from Bank of America. If there’s one thing people are going to be hypersensitive to being broken, it’s a financial system. Combine that with PR that gives the distinct impression you don’t have a clue and then it becomes flammable.

Vern, SwiftWater Telecom

The goal of this document is to walk through the installation of a MoinMoin wiki without getting bogged down in any details.  We’ll go through requirements, decisions, and steps to complete, that’s all.  (OK, I did end up indicating what directories are added; I can’t stand when stuff is added I don’t know about.)   I will follow up this post with the details for those who are interested. Once you have completed the steps herein you will have a working MoinMoin wiki on your Dreamhost.com shared hosting account.  By no way is this the only way to set up MoinMoin on an account, or even the best way, but I tested it and it will work.  Lets get to it!

Requirements

• Dreamhost shared hosting account.
• A domain setup as fully hosted
• Shell and FTP access to the domain account

Assumptions

• Dreamhost running python version 2.4
• MoinMoin version 1.8.5
• Understanding of editing files from Linux shell
• acctname is the accout name you used to access your domain account through ssh and FTPS.
• ~/ = $HOME = /home/acctname/

Decisions

• URL to run wiki from (we use sub directory) [We will use: http://hosteddomain/wiki]
• Private name for the wiki’s instance name [We will use: dhwiki]

Steps

1. Download MoinMoin wiki tarball from http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinDownload (moin-1.8.5.tar.gz) to your local workstation.
2. From FTP: upload file to Dreamhost into folder ~/files [/home/acctname/files]
   ** All commands from now on are from your shell access **
3. cd ~/files

4. tar -xvzf ~/files/moin-1.8.5.tar.gz [new directory is created: ~/files/moin-1.8.5

5. cd ~/files/moin-1.8.5

6. python setup.py --quiet install --prefix=$HOME --record=install.log

   [two directories created: ~/share/moin; ~/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin]

7. Setup environment variables

   1. export PREFIX=$HOME

   2. export SHARE=$PREFIX/share/moin

   3. export WIKILOC=$SHARE

   4. export INSTANCE=dhwiki

8. cd $WIKILOC

9. mkdir $INSTANCE

10. cp -R $SHARE/data $INSTANCE

11. cp -R $SHARE/underlay $INSTANCE

12. cp $SHARE/config/wikiconfig.py $INSTANCE

13. chmod -R o+rwX $INSTANCE

14. Edit file $INSTANCE/wikiconfig.py
    Find and change the follwing lines:
    1. sitename = u'Your Wiki Title'
    2. logo_string = u'<img src="/wiki/common/moinmoin.png" alt="MoinMoin Logo">'
    3. Remove hash (#) in front of: page_front_page = u"FrontPage"
    4. data_dir = '/home/acctname/share/moin/dhwiki/data/'
    5. data_underlay_dir = '/home/acctname/share/moin/dhwiki/underlay/'
    6. url_prefix_static = '/wiki'   [(remove # from line)]
    7. mail_smarhost = "dreamhost smtp server"

15. cd ~/hosteddomain

16. cp -R $SHARE/htdocs wiki

17. chmod -R a+rX wiki

18. cd wiki

19. mkdir ./cgi-bin

20. cp $SHARE/server/moin.cgi ./cgi-bin

21. chmod -R a+rx ./cgi-bin

22. cd ./cgi-bin

23. Edit file moin.cgi
    Find and change the following lines.  Please remove the # if they exist on THESE lines:
    1. sys.path.insert(0, 'home/acctname/lib/python2.4/site-packages')
    2. sys.path.insert(0, '/home/acctname/share/moin/dhwiki')

24. cd ..

25. Edit file index.html
    Find and change the following lines:
    1. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=cgi-bin/moin.cgi/">
    2. Click <a href="cgi-bin/moin.cgi">here</a> to get to the FrontPage
26. Go to your favorite browser and enter your wiki's domain: Http://hosteddomain/wiki

Use these instructions at your own risk.  I extend no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy or safety of your data or website.

These instructions where tested by building the following wiki: http://MMonDH.brettski.com/wiki

All comments are welcome

References Used

• http://master.moinmo.in/MoinMoin/InstallDocs#basic-install
• http://www.wombatnation.com/misc/installMoinMoinDreamHost.html

Revision Information

• 11/21/2009
  • Initial post after successfully building a wiki following exact steps

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How to back up or migrate your blog.

The internet is not safe. If you have your data on a webhost, anywhere, it’s probably not safe. If you have a security specialist on your team (and none of us here do), then maybe it’s somewhat safe from malicious attacks, but even then, it’s still vulnerable to plain old hardware failure and general cockups. And the most vulnerable data of all is the data that is hosted on bottom-end hosts like Dreamhost where potentially hundreds of other people are sharing disk space and server resources with you, and as with everywhere on the internet, a sizable proportion of them are guaranteed to be some combination of incompetent and malicious. It’s only a matter of time before one of them accidentally or deliberately brings the server down, accidentally corrupts your files, or breaks in to your filespace and uses it to subsidise their pornography business. It’s happened to me, more than once. Moreover, as I’ve said before, if you are using FTP instead of SFTP, it means that you don’t really care about your data anyway, and pretty much anyone with enough dedication can come along and steal your password and make free with your files if they try hard enough.

Everyone needs backups. Backup. Backup all the time. Remember, I can’t give you extensions if the Ukrainian Pr0n Mafia eats your homework.

Those are the risks – but here is an clarifying certainty: when the semester is over, this web hosting will be turned off and your files will be deleted. So, quite aside from everything else, if you wish to keep your work, you will need to make at least one backup to get it off Dreamhost at the end of the class.

OK, that’s the motivation. Now… how to do this backup thing?

There’s a few options. Too many, as always. Personally, I store all the files I am working on using github, which keeps a record of every change I make, and is very very powerful. However, that’s a bit complicated, and it won’t work easily from UTS computers, so I’ll leave that one as an exercise for the advanced students.

More easy, you might want to keep all your work offline on your home computer, and only upload it at the last minute. That’s pretty possible too. You can run web servers on your home machine and just use whatever your normal home backup system is. (you do have a backup system for your home computer, right?) If you want to do that, you might find it easiest to download a preconfigured web server. There’s a free one for windows called XAMPP, and one for Mac called MAMP. I certainly do offline development myself, although I don’t use those preconfigured web server packages, since I don’t develop on Mac or Windows, but use a nice fresh linux system called Ubuntu which manages it for me automatically. All three of these systems are quite easy to use, although I should warn you that WordPress makes the uploading to a new server a bit fiddly.

But enough broad-brush options. I’m going to get down to the nitty gritty on the simplest option of all: Backing up over (S)FTP.

If you are uplaover cyberduck, you are already part of the way there. The trick is:remember that when you edit your files on the dreamhost server instead of your local computer, you now have some custom changes which you probably want to keep a copy of.

this way lies pain if you ain't careful

Same goes for wordpress’s built-in editor, and its plugin installer. Every time you use that, you are modifying files on the server which leaves them at the whim of Dreamhost. Nothing wrong with that, if you want to see the changes you make take instant effect, but it can be bad if you want to make sure you get to keep that change if something goes wrong.

So the trick to avoid losing stuff here is to use Cyberduck’s “Synchronise” feature, which will synchronise files on your local computer and the server, and keep them as similar as possible. This handy little feature exists on the “actions” menu of cyberduck

Here's your lifesaver

Once you click on that, you get to choose a local folder on your computer to keep in sync with the server.

cyberduck's synchronise window

Now, choose whether to do update the server with your local changes (“upload”), update your local copy with changes from the server (“download”), or both at once (“mirror”). Press “continue” then wait until it’s finished. And now you’ve backed up your files. Hurray!

so many choices, so little time

Note that Dreamweaver can also do this. The adventurous among you are welcome to try that, but I’m not going to show you. Why? Well, for a start, all the staff here use Cyberduck in preference to Dreamweaver. For another, just because dreamweaver can do almost everything doesn’t mean it can do everything well, and one of the things that annoys me is how incredibly slow its file synchronisation system can be. For a final reason, it doesn’t hurt to learn how to use a couple of different tools, especially free, open-source ones like Cyberduck.

But, are you done here? Well, no. Not unless you are building a site in pure HTML. The thing about WordPress, or joomla, or any of these modern blogs and things is that they store information in a database on the server (in our case, MySQL) which is completely distinct from the files on the server. It’s a whole other way of storing information, and it’s completely different to back up. We won’t be going in to MySQL in detail this semester, but you will need to know at least that it’s there and how to make copies of the stuff it stores on your behalf. Here goes:

You need to find the admin interface for you database. The easiest way to do this is to log in to the dreamhost control panel and go right there.

You’re looking for the “web administration” link, which for all of our databases is though a special web application called “phpMyAdmin”.  You can also usually work out how to get there, if you rememebrd your MySQL hostname, by just putting “mysql” in front of your site address. So for my site, at http://dan.map-netcultures.net, the databse admin is at http://mysql.dan.map-netcultures.net. It will be different for you, mind.  You’ll need your database username and password to login, mind. You did write it down, didn’t you?

That will take you into the convoluted bowels of phpMyAdmin. There’s lots of buttons here, which you can gleefully ignore. The key thing is to select the database that you are using for your blog (you did write that down, right?) In my case it’s “dan123″.

Next, you want to do an “export” of that database, which is, predictably, under the “export” menu – the little guy highlighted in red below.

Now, finally, it’s time to do the deed. The expor menu has terrifyingly many options, most of which you don’t need. But you do probably want to “save as a file” and moreover a “zipped” file. Select those options and press the “go” button.

The red circle highlights the only controls I suspect you will need unless you are feeling rather advanced indeed

Bam! you now have a database backup called something like yourname.sql.zip

Put this somewhere safe

Where this downloads to depends on your browser. the important thing is that you should put it somewhere safe so that you can find it again later. And while we’re here- you can also restore backups. This is handy if you make a horrible mistake while you are editing your blog and want it to go back the way it was. That part is straightforward if you’ve gotten this far – to reload your exported database, you simply “import” it:

The opposite of exporting is importing. If you dump your exported file into the import box, you will get your database restored to the way it was when you exported it.

Too easy. Now, go forth and make radical changes to your blog, secure in the knowledge you can always put it back the way it was.

Bonus points – wordpress-specific tips

These instructions so far have been completely generic. But if you are using wordpress, you have a couple of extra options, and a couple of extra difficulties.

Firstly, let me re-iterate that full blown wordpress install is a bit fiddly, but the instructions are
here. If you’ve done anything at all complex to your blog, this is the avenue open to you. It’s pretty well documented, but takes a few minutes.

There’s also the wordpress-special option of exporting and re-importing your blog. This only works if you haven’t done any massively self-hosted word-press specific things – if you haven’t customised your themes, if you aren’t embedding custom javascript, and you haven’t installed any except the wordpress.com preferred plugins. If all those hold true, there is an easy option: Export your blog posts, and import them again later. Instructions are here. Two steps. 2 minutes. Easy.

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Probablement, ja us heu demanat què ha passat amb Bitsenbloc, ja que ha desaparegut el preciós disseny que tenia fins ara. L’explicació és simple, ahir vaig fer un canvi de servidor i, pel camí, he hagut de renunciar a certes coses.

Comencem pel principi. Fins ara, Bitsenbloc era allotjat en un servidor de Dreamhost. Aquella era una instal·lació manual. És a dir, era jo qui s’havia d’encarregar d’anar actualitzant el blog a la darrera versió i, això és el més important, era jo qui s’havia d’encarregar de la seva seguretat.

Actualitzar el blog no suposa un problema molt important, al cap i a la fi, els de WordPress.org han simplificat molt la tasca. No obstant, no sempre actualitzava a temps, simplement, perquè la vida ara m’obliga a orientar la meva atenció cap a altres coses. No actualitzar el blog és un problema de seguretat, ja que un cop una vulnerabilitat és detectada, tota una munió de crackers es dedica a cercar blogs fets amb WordPress per tal d’injectari-hi codi, sovint amb l’objectiu d’enllaçar pàgines fraudulentes. De fet, això ja m’ha passat més d’una vegada.

Així doncs, tenint en compte que la meva vida actual no em deixa mantenir el blog com és degut i que jo no sóc un bon administrador de sistemes, he decidit passar el relleu a professionals. Així doncs, des d’ahir vespre, Bitsenbloc i el blog del meu pare s’allotgen a WordPress.com, el servei comercial de blogs que ofereix Auttomattic, l’empresa del creador d’aquest programa de gestió de blogs. Pel mòdic preu de 10$ anuals (és el que s’ha de pagar per tal de poder emprar un domini propi), els millors experts en WordPress s’encarregaran de vigilar la meva llar digital. Així, podré dormir tranquil.

Què he perdut amb el canvi? Per una banda, ja no puc emprar el disseny que jo vulgui (bé sí, si pago 15$ més anuals ho podré fer, però de moment em fa vessa), per l’altra no puc posar els plugins que desitgi. El primer problema és relativament greu. El segon, en canvi, no em fa patir, ja que, de fet, cap dels plugins que emprava és essencial.

I què passa amb la meva llibertat? Doncs no gaire cosa. Tinc una relació de client a professional amb Automattic, ja que pago un servei, així doncs, tinc tot el dret a queixar-me (com ho faig de vegades amb els de Dreamhost). Per altra banda, WordPress és un programa molt respectuós amb les dades de l’usuari. Aquestes es poden exportar en format XML. De fet, és gràcies a això que he pogut importar tot el que he escrit a Bitsenbloc des de 2003. Així doncs, quan vulgui, faré les maletes i aniré a una altre casa. Amb tot allò que em pertany.

Per sort, no hi ha hagut cap canvi de domini, així que els fils de subscripció es troben allí mateix. El que sí que ha canviat una mica és l’estructura de les URL dels arxius, però no només de PageRank viu l’home.

Ja per acabar, vull donar les gràcies a n’Oscar Barber per haver fet el magnífic disseny i logo que tenia fins ara. Ara intentaré cercar un disseny que em permeti canviar el logo, per així recuperar el de sempre.

Here’s a handy tool for y’all. WordPress. It’s probably one of the most common CMSs (Content Management Systems) in existence. It’s written in PHP and the MySQL dialect of SQL, two languages that I do not intend to cover in this course.  The beauty of WordPress, as opposed to systems like Ruby on Rails, Joomla or Django, is that you can do a lot of stuff without having to touch the PHP/SQL stuff. I might argue that the beauty of Django or Rails is that it makes the code so simple that you don’t mind messing with it. But that is definitely digressing. You might want to give those frameworks a look if you are going further later on.

The distinction with all these systems, the thing that makes them different from the javascript-based code we’ve been developing so far, is that javascript runs (typically) in the browser, on the computer of the user who visits your page. PHP and SQL though are executed on a the server. This is why UTS pays Dreamhost money for the usage of their machines.

But one step at a time. WordPress is a great way of seeing how all this website stuff works… let’s take it from where we left off last time, installing stuff from the dreamhost control panel.

The dreamhost add-new-software screen

Shazam. You now have wordpress installed. Why not take a look at what you have there, and fill out your info?

your brand new blog thingy - don't get the email wrong or you'll have to start again.

Once you’ve logged in you’ll be presented with a classic blog dashboard where you can hang around editing posts and so forth. There’s a million options here which might be confusing. Fortunately there is an extensive manual. Why not try to make a brand new post? Can you work out how to do that? Having edited your new post, why not find the post in a browser and have a look the published version? Now, run firebug, or press “view source” and have a look at the HTML that makes up the page… It’s a bit more complex that the stuff we were coding up by hand earlier, no?

where all the wordpress action is at

How is this magic accomplished? Well, if you’d like you can look deeper into the internals of the software… you can point Cyberduck at the server and have a look at the files that make up your wordpress installation. There’s a lot of stuff there- basically, a crapload of PHP code that automates the process of generating HTML for you. You could edit the PHP code in turn if you wanted to… but why bother? Life is short, and there are some easier options to try first.

FTP view of the php files that dreamhost has installed for you to make wordpress go

For a start, you can modify wordpress’s behaviour with plugins, little bits of PHP code that the community has generously written and shared. How about we look for ones that give the blog handy map mashup functionality? I happen to know one of the geo mashup standards is called “GeoRSS”, so I’ll do search for that. Plugins are variable in quality, but the first one listed there looks alright:

i search for georss, i find too many options.

From there it’s as simple as pressing the “install” button. Well, almost. this one uses google maps, so you have to sign on to google maps too:

signing on for a google maps API key is typical of the sorts of sign on you have to do to use third party services.

After those steps, BAM, you now have a mapping-enabled blog:

cripes, a whole new bonus settings menu has appeared.

Great. But you can also change the appearance of your blog. The visual equivalent of a plugin is a “theme”, a collection of CSS and code that changes the appearance of your blog. There are loads of community-contributed ones there too.

you can hunt "themes" the same way as hunting plugins

Of if you need to make finer changes, you can edit the CSS, or the code, that makes up your site by yourself:

The theme editor allows you to get at the CSS and HTML that makes up the site

Now, how about taking it further?

There are loads of interesting plugins – say if you want to integrate some other social networking sites that you are involved in, you could install  Lifestream

If you think giving your readers the ability to comment on the individual paragraphs of your blog, for example, there are plugins to enable that. There is an old system called comment press that makes an interesting case about why you might want to do that. Don’t install that, though, install the new version called digress.it.

Or if you wanted to use wordpress as a mashup engine, lots of things you might want to do don’t even need you to install plugins. For example, you could use the wordpress sidebar widgets to download and install new content from other sites (or from yahoo pipes, or from dapper) using rss… anyone care to walk us through that one?

And if you want to combine some of the other skills we’ve been learning with this… yes, jQuery, and CSS and all that stuff still work. jQuery ships with wordpress and it’s easy to enable. You can create scripts on a per-page basis or for every page in your site. You can also use the google-hosted version, as we’ve been doing in class. There’s a little trick, though – to enable the $() business to work like you’re used to, you have to write your javascript files like this:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    // $() will work as an alias for jQuery() inside of this function
});

There are some excellent tutorials out there on precisely this:

• 30 Tutorials Combining Both WordPress and jQuery
• 15+ Plugins to Unleash the Invincible Power of jQuery and WordPress

Affiliate marketing is a very popular practice on the Internet. Under this system you have a merchant that is willing to let other people (the affiliates) sell directly or indirectly its products and services, in exchange for a commission. Sometimes this type of advertising is also called CPA (cost per action) or CPL (cost per lead) based.
Affiliates can send potential customers to the merchant using several tools, from banners to text links and product reviews.
In order to find suitable affiliate programs you can turn to individual companies and publishers like Dreamhost and SEOBook, or join affiliate marketplaces and networks.
List of popular affiliate marketplaces and networks:
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ClickBank
Azoogle Ads
Link Share

As mentioned in my bio; I do a bit of web-designing on the side…  it’s always been an interest of mine and something I’m quite passionate about because unlike my regular day job, it really allows my mind to run free and be as creative as can be.

Currently the projects are:

• Lash Boutique (www.lashboutique.com.au)
• Roxy2Foxy – Makeup Artistry (www.roxy2foxy.com.au)
• Moltofino (www.moltofino.com.au)

Lash Boutique was founded by Wendy Huang who approached me for a site after her previous designer decided to jump ship (after she’d paid for it – yes lame).  Being a good friend, and also someone that Roxy2Foxy had worked with before – I went to extra lengths to help her out.

The result is as follows:

The site incorporates most if not all of my web-designing knowledge and with the help of Mitch & Google, I’ve learnt a lot along the way.  I also learnt that you should NEVER EVER host your sites with Plesk – slow, cumbersome and manual.  It is now with Dreamhost; and we’re never looking back

So if you have a moment, go over n have a browse… if you have a girlfriend, sister or even mum who’s into this stuff; be sure to let them know!

Another project completed by a-vex designs…

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I am familiar with iText , but not familiar with Ruby, I know Dreamhost supports Ruby on Rails(ROR), but never have a chance to run a real application, though I have a Dreamhost space.

Getting rjb, also known as “Ruby Java Bindings’ to work in a Dreamhost account can be somewhat problematic. Fortunately, it is also fairly straightforward. You just have to install all the dependencies in the user directory.

In my case, I was setting up a Rails Application that used the iText Java library to fill in PDF documents for user download. Of course, the server environment was not using Sun Java and the Java headers were not present, so gem install rjb failed. Joy.

The first course of action was to do a local install of Java.

Download jdk-6u7-linux-x64.bin and jre-6u7-linux-x64.bin from the Sun Java site. Then create an ~/opt directory and extract the JRE and JDK (you will need to chmod u+x both files then call them from the command line). Move the resulting folders to ~/opt . I renamed the folders to jdk and jre for simplicity.

Now you ensure that user gems are enabled in cPanel. Then add the following 3 lines to ~/.bash_profile

export JAVA_HOME=/home/username/opt/jdk
export GEM_PATH=/home/username/ruby/gems
export GEM_HOME=/home/username/ruby/gems

Run source ~/.bash_profile to load the paths.

Now you can run gem install rjb without any problems. You will likely have to re-install Rails and other gems because we will be telling our Rails app to load gems from the user directory. Just use the regular gem install syntax.

Add the following 2 lines to your config/environment.rb at the top

ENV['GEM_PATH']=’/home/username/ruby/gems’
ENV['JAVA_HOME']=’/home/username/opt/jdk’

That’s pretty much it.

I will concede that these probably aren’t the best instructions, but this is the real meat of the solution. If you keep getting “no such file to load” errors, you will need to extract the gems to the vendor/plugins directory. cd RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins and gem unpack gem_name for each problematic gem. I believe this is an issue with Passenger.

Please correct me if I am wrong about any of this, it was a very long day!

source: http://blog.patrick-morgan.net/2008/10/using-ruby-java-bindings-on-dreamhost.html

I’ll keep it up for a bit longer… but I am now hosting my own blog! check it out: nick5hoe.com

I’ve transferred everything from here to there- see you on the other side!

~NjS

A long time ago, when I just started with my online business, there weren’t that many choices of hosting companies
to work with.
The first company I used was Godaddy.
GoDaddy grew very big in the DotCom era, and are one of the most popular hosts until this time.
This is no accident, as they provide one of the best most well rounded services in the world for domain owners.
They provide hosting also, plus many many “bonus” features.
I say “Bonus” just because they are not free like regular Bonuses, however they provide many extra services
that other companies just don’t. So I see them as Bonus features.

After a while, when the DotCom bubble kinda blew up, and well, most of the yourname.com domains were
no longer available, many other post-fixes came into the market (i.e .net .org .co.uk etc),
as well as a new type of host – Green hosts.

With the environmental build up in the world, domain hosts such as DreamHost realized that they too have to
consider their customers feelings, and started promoting, as well as operating Green hosting.
Green hosting means that they use the minimum necessary energy to operate their Server farms,
some hosts even donate to environmental organizations parts of their revenue – All in the name of
customer satisfaction. Many people these days, like me,  consider this a very important attribute.

However – the problem remained the same – Most of the yourname.com, or even anyshortname.com
domains are long since taken. One has to be very creative, very lucky, or settle for a long domain name
that no one could remember.

Then one company said – no more. That company is Global Domains International.

In the web industry is it always hard to identify pioneers and the forward thinking people who can take
a simple concept and turn it into a big opportunity. Global Domains International could be identified as a
pioneering company when it comes to offering domain registration services that could provide you
with a steady income, in more than one way.
At a time when the dot com domains have filled up and people are on the lookout for an alternative
way to get their businesses noticed on the internet, GDI has supplied that alternative.

GDI has locked down the entire .WS market, thus creating a full out Internet revolution
With a .WS address you can stand out above the rest, and gain a completely new level of presence that is no longer
possible with an obscure dot com address.
Not only that, but GDI also provide you with all the services a host like Godaddy Supplies you with, plus
the service you’d expect from hosts like the Green DreamHost. Personally it took me about 5 minutes on the
clock to decide to move my domains from GoDaddy to them, and ofcourse get a .Ws domain on my own name.
Haven’t looked back since!
I get full hosting service, Total flexibility, SEO services, and all I need to concentrate on my business.
Over time I kept on registering more domains, hey – The names are available, easy and short, why not use it?

That’s what I recommend folks!
You see listed above my three most favorite hosting companies, and of course – The Host I chose at the end.
The only thing wrong with the first two hosts is – You’ve guessed it – They CAN’T register .Ws names,
therefore they are still stuck with the same ever shrinking supply of Domain names.

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Cheers!

I finally ditched my old site with Dreamhost due to lack of programs to run it and forgetting all my passwords, but decidedly still need a place to send people when they come-a-calling for examples of my refrigerator drawings.  So I decided that as long as I’m in school, the last thing I need is to be a “pro” and have a real deal site like before… becuase let’s face it, I wasn’t keeping up with it. I failed at the private artist’s homepage “test”aroni… and failed hard… much like testaroni, which can only be either a failed italian sports car brand of some sort or a dog testicle chef boyardee concontion.

On this bright and sunny rain-filled night, I finally put myself to work to create a simple online art portfolio to have this part of my online persona filled out and ready to never be seen, as is my fate given my unexcellent google rankings, sigh.

For your viewing pleasure, My newest online thing.

I need to make more stuff, only one work in there is from the last year… wowza.

WDT

On this episode, we are talking about Jon and Kate, the death of Michael Jackson, and what to do about events and volunteers during the summer.

Hosts for this episode: Henry Zonio, Sam Luce, and Gina McClain.

Listen now

Or you can download it.

Episode Table of Contents (approximate times to go to)

0 minute – Intro
3 minute – In the News: Jon and Kate divorce announcement and Michael Jackson passing away
14 minute – Summer Events and Volunteers Discussion
43 minute – Resource picks for the month (Evernote, GoodReads, and DreamHost)

Come back after you listen and leave your comments!!

My current hosting company has just expired so i’ve taken the trip across to dreamhost who will look after my hosting needs from now on. They give me a lot more freedom than my previous host so the first thing i’ve done is to get my blog up-to-date. I’ll cease to use this blog as of today and all updates will come through to my new site. If you have had this blog delivered to your email or a rss reader (whats this?) then just visit the new site and subscribe again. It wont take you 2 minutes.

This latest blog has been designed by myself and i feel its good to go out live now. If you see anything you don’t like or have any suggestions for improvements then just let me know, i’d be happy to hear them. Hopefully it should be looking nice and slick very shortly. I’m currently designing a new website for this blog to compliment which i’ll let you know about as soon as its ready to drop.

Hope to see you over on the new blog www.timlloydphoto.com/blog

Cheers for following this one,

Tim.

Ternyata tidak boleh install WP di Dreamhost Shared Hosting katanya ga kuat harus Install di Dreamhost PS.

Info Selengkapnya di

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/WordPress_MU

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Last night I posted that my website, http://ahecker.com would be up and running by 9:00 this morning. I’ll save you the trouble of going there – it doesn’t work yet. The works perfectly fine when tested locally, but when I put the files up through FTP (I used CyberDuck), the links were all broken. I have double checked everything and it seems to be fine, but the results are still the same.

So I am asking for help. My website is being hosted through DreamHost, which does not have a lot of customer support, or at least any that I can find about this topic. If anyone has a website through DreamHost, or knows what I might be doing wrong in the FTP process, please leave a comment here or email me at toledo8904@gmail.com . Or if you just know someone I should talk to about it, drop me a comment or email.

I spent a lot of time working on this site, and I don’t want it all to be for nothing. Thank you for any help you may be able to give, and I will be back with an update and a story by the end of the weekend.

It’s been a long time coming, but we are finally (almost) there

So far only the newer servers have it available, which I’m not on yet A friend is though, the smug git!

Roll on the server upgrades I say.