A screen capture of the DreamHost Apps website.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) announced on its blog Friday it has launched a new hosting service for web-based applications (www.dreamhostapps.com), available now for free in its beta release.
“Well, it’s free for now anyway. We’re flirting with the idea of a $50 yearly fee once it’s out of beta…but if you sign up RIGHT NOW to help us test things out we’ll let you use DreamHost Apps for free for ever!”
Current DreamHost customers can already log into the DreamHost Apps service with the same DreamHost Web Panel login.
The exact same functionality has been available to customers for months under the “Easy Mode” in the “Goodies / One-Click Installs” section of the account control panel.
Meanwhile, other individuals looking for free hosting of a WordPress Blog, Drupal Site, Zenphoto Gallery, Mediawiki Wiki, PhpBB Forum, Google Apps and Gmail can gain access to the service by invitation only.
DreamHost has posted about 100 invitation codes in the comments section of the blog post, explaining that if the code fails to work it has already been redeemed. It also adds that it may post more invitation codes in the coming days.
Users of the free DreamHost Apps service will not have access to FTP access, SSH access, email, or technical support. DreamHost Apps users can install and delete apps through the DreamHost Apps management interface, while using each Apps’ own web-based interface to make application-level changes.
DreamHost says the service was developed “over the course of a few months by a small team of four hardworking DreamHost Employees, Pete V, Mike P, Joshua H, and me, Brett D.”
In other applications hosting services news, Google announced last month that Salesforce.com’s Force.com has now been integrated into Google’s App Engine.
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