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Q&A: DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson Discusses Outages and their Impact

February 7, 2012 — In an email Q&A with the WHIR, DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson talked about how the company is working to maintain customer relationships, and its plans to avoid a similar incident in the future.

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Major DreamHost Outage Hits VPS, Dedicated Hosting Customers

January 30, 2012 — Many DreamHost customers are shopping around for a new web host after an outage on Sunday that lasted more than 12 hours, according to comments on its status page. This outage comes a week after DreamHost told customers to change their passwords after it detected unauthorized activity on its database.

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Web Host DreamHost Resets FTP Passwords After Security Breach Detected

January 23, 2012 — Web hosting provider DreamHost has told its customers to change their passwords in an email on Friday night after it detected unauthorized activity on its database, according to a report by CNET. In the email, DreamHost claimed it had reset all customer FTP passwords as a precaution and that users could create new ones through the online panel. Web panel, email passwords and billing information were not exposed during the breach, according to the report.

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A Look Inside DreamHost’s Email-Focused Technical Support

January 19, 2012 — In an interview with the WHIR, technical support manager for DreamHost Brian Hill says email support has proved to be the most effective for DreamHost’s customer base, and that transparency is critical to keeping its customers happy.

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Noise Filter: Web Hosts Voice SOPA Stance

December 30, 2011 — It seems that many web hosting providers did not publicly announce their stance on the Stop Piracy Act until this week, while Go Daddy was dealing with the aftermath of its decision to support the bill – a decision it quickly retracted after its customers furious response.

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Will Go Daddy Preserve its Culture Through the Acquistion?

December 21, 2011 — Web host Go Daddy plans to advertise its cloud-based offerings in 2012 with the Pussycat Dolls, and recently rang in the holiday season with a performance by Kid Rock at an “All-American” party attended by 5,000 guests. The company’s offbeat culture is one of its trademarks, but it’s something you might expect to be a casualty of the acquisition that closed last week.

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Web Host Dreamhost Teams with LA Start-Up Accelerator MuckerLab

November 17, 2011 — DreamHost says it will provide start-ups accepted into MuckerLab’s program during 2012 with a year of free hosting services, including fully managed servers and a selection of other services, in addition to the tools provided by MuckerLabs.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – October 28, 2011

October 28, 2011 — In the week ending October 28, many web hosting providers offered their share of treats in the days leading up to Halloween. Hostmonster has a 50 percent discount on shared hosting, DreamHost is offering up to 92 percent off its shared hosting, Storm On Demand is offering bandwidth pricing on its cloud hosting plans, and QuadraNet is providing the first month of colocation service for free.

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Web Host DreamHost Names Vice President of Software Development

October 3, 2011 — Web hosting provider DreamHost announced on Monday that it has appointed Jonathan LaCour to VP of software development. Prior to DreamHost, LaCour served as vice president of software products at Pictage where he guided the creation of several cornerstone products, according to the press release.

Rackspace's Jim Curry Unlocks the Cloud in a Case for Open Standards

August 8, 2011 — In the fourth session of the Technology and Operations track, Jim Curry, GM of Rackspace Cloud Builders, delivered his presentation, “Unlocking the Cloud — The Case for Open Standards”. Curry first gave a brief introduction to OpenStack, which is a next generation cloud operating system that transforms data centers into pools of resources.