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The urgent Wordpress 2.3.2 security release enables you to create a custom wordpress database error page, which will be displayed when wordpress has a problem connecting to your database, instead of garbled php coded error messages. (more…)

The QUICK97 promo code will now get only $50 off instead of $97. Dreamhost webhosting runs a very popular affiliate referral program called Dreamhost rewards where webmasters on Dreamhost web hosting could earn $97 per referral, or pass on the benefit to new subscribers by issuing promo codes for a maximum $97 discount. Dreamhost has now capped the discount ot a maximum of $50. Grab the $97 discount coupons while you can… (more…)

Yesterday our popular article titled Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools hit the del.icio.us front page hotlist and instantly a traffic spike boosted my Sitemeter statistics. However, getting on the del.icio.us front page is different than getting on del.icio.us/popular. I elaborate the Del.icio.us Front Page Effect that followed. (more…)

Web Hosting Talk is reporting that Lunarpages has turned the default 404 pages for all sites they host (if they have not configured a custom 404 page) to sponsored links type ad pages. Dreamhost has grabbed the opportunity to draw LunarPages hosting customers to their web hosting by offering free one year hosting to them. (more…)

Have you ever wondered how the efficient servers of wordpress.com handle millions of requests per day? Information is being revealed about how Amazon S3, Varnish, and Pound work in the background to bring your the Wordpress.com efficiency. (more…)

As Dreamhost celebrate their 10th birthday with the biggest promotional discount ever (first year hosting for $9.30) they also merged their multiple hosting plans into one single Happy Hosting plan. (more…)

DreamHost Web Hosting turned 10 on September 24th, 2007 and are celebrating the event by offering the maximum discount at $110.10 for the next 1010 new customers. (more…)

My favorite FTP / SFTP Client called Filezilla has undergone a major upgrade. The long awaited new version Filezilla 3.0 promises to be better and multi-platform compatible. (more…)

Dreamhost had recently launched the DreamHost PS premium shared hosting service (invite-only), available only as an add-on to a current DreamHost hosting plans. Now they have launched a DreamHost PS MySQL (a service completely separate from DreamHost PS), that gives you the same sort of memory and CPU isolation to push your databases to the limit. (more…)

Feedburner MyBrand is a Pro feature for showcasing your feedburner feed on your own domain name. Recently Feedbuner MyBrand became free and now bloggers can easily change the feedburner url to a more professsional url with your domain branding. Check out how I got this feature working on my Dreamhost web hosting in a few minutes. (more…)