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http://digg.com/tech_deals/1_full_year_at_Dreamhost_for_30_200GB_space_2TB_of_monthly_transfer</a><br><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">DreamHost September Newslettery
</b> <<a href="mailto:do.not.reply@dreamhost.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">do.not.reply@dreamhost.com</a>><br>Date: Oct 3, 2006 6:00 PM<br>Subject: DreamHost Newsletter
v8.9 September 2006<br><br></span>0. Introduction.<br>1. It's our birthday? Double the bandwidth, tenify the disk!
<br>2. Shared + Dedicated? Shedicated!<br>3. Down with DRM? Up with Files! Forever!<br>4. RSS Feeds? The Discussion Board!<br>5. Who needs catch-alls? <a href="mailto:Not+you@dreamhost.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Not+you@dreamhost.com</a>!<br>
6. Transferring a .com? .net? You need an auth code!<br>7. Old Charities? New Charities!<br>8. Network problems? Fixed!<br>9. DHSOTM? DHSOTM!<br><br>########################################################################
<br>0. Introduction.<br><br>Did you SEE that Table of Contents? Holy Cram-oly! Maybe I should do<br>newsletters like last month's more often! I don't know where all this<br>stuff came from, but I PROMISED something SUPER last month, and what
<br>better chance to DELIVER something SUPER than by delivering LOTS of SO-<br>SO? It's the shotgun method of great web hosting features!<br><br>It's also like my mama always told me. She told me, "Son, better to do
<br>
lots of mediocre things than one thing that's really good. That way,<br>people will know you were trying, even if you are a little dumb."<br><br>That crazy Mama, she made me! Or maybe it was all my Papa, with his<br>
failed shotgun method of birth control.<br><br>And uh, my apologies that there's NO TIME for a silly THEME this month,<br>I've got WAY too many average, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum features to plow<br>through!<br><br><br>########################################################################
<br>1. It's our birthday? Double the bandwidth, tenify the disk!<br><br>So, what feature WAS I alluding to last month anyway? Could it that it's<br>now been NINE years since we registered <a href="http://dreamhost.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
dreamhost.com
</a>, and to celebrate<br>we've upped everybody's disk and bandwidth, AGAIN, wellll beyond the<br>realm of possible use: up to TEN times the disk (including growth rate)<br>and at LEAST double the bandwidth (also including weekly growth rate)!
<br><br>And as usual, all existing customers get it too, and you don't even have<br>to do anything to upgrade. It's ... already ... happened.<br><br>Anyway, that puts us at, um. Er. I'm not sure. A lot. Check it out:<br>
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<a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html</a><br><br>But WAIT! Is that a new site design for <a href="http://dreamhost.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
dreamhost.com</a> I see? And what's<br>that on the main page? Pictures of employees and RSS feeds? GRADIENTS?
<br><br>Amazing! What version of the web would you even CONSIDER a site like<br>this? It's gotta be more than 1.5, possibly even 1.9..<br><br>This is some kind of killer upgrade, for sure. Possibly even SUPER.<br><br>And for those of you who say, "SCREW all the features, ALL I *really*
<br>want is website, email, and database stability!" I say, "You are smart."<br><br><br>########################################################################<br>2. Shared + Dedicated? Shedicated!<br><br>
Okay smarties. If you're so SMART, and you hate features, why do you<br>keep hosting with us? Who's SMART NOW?! Don't worry, you still are.<br><br>Because we're half-way back to dedicated servers! And everybody KNOWS<br>
dedicated servers are The Best Way to get all the LAME features of
<br>DreamHost plus all the AWESOME admin skills of YOURSELF.<br><br>Except wait! You're not an ADMIN (some of you). And DreamHost is not<br>really THAT bad.. now that we fixed our network problems (see eight<br>below). That was not a subliminal ad for the movie (with Paul Walker),
<br>that was to point you to section #8 below. (Snow dogs are cute.)<br><br>What I'm saying is, maybe you DON'T need root access to a server to be<br>happy. Maybe you just need your own "shared" machine.. just not actually
<br>shared with anybody else. And maybe, just maybe, you've got $395/month<br>burning a hole in your butt.<br><br>In which case, "Shedicated" hosting is for you! OR, as the less creative<br>call it, "Strictly Business Enhanced":
<br><br> <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-dedicated.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-dedicated.html</a><br><br>Get all the FUN of your own server, but without having to deal with any
<br>of the DUMB. Apart from the fact you'll still get this newsletter.
<br><br>And THAT is a SUPER feature, desu ne?<br><br><br>########################################################################<br>3. Down with DRM? Up with Files! Forever!<br><br>Nah, I didn't think so EITHER.<br><br>
What would be REALLY super is if there was an iTunes-like digital store<br>that didn't put any DRM on their songs and let you re-download them if<br>you ever lost them. Or, if there were an online file backup service<br>
where you only had to pay once, instead of monthly, THAT'D be super. Or<br>ACTUALLY, if DreamHost offered an easy way to email large files to my<br>friends. Now THAT would be super.<br><br>But all three, in one, that'd be complicated, stupid and POOPER.
<br><br>Well, you know me. All in three!<br><br> <a href="https://files.dreamhost.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://files.dreamhost.com/</a><br><br>Try it now while it's still in BETA.. before it gets GOOD!
<br><br>Oh, and if my NEWSLETTER doesn't make any SENSE:
<br><br> <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/10/03/itunes-music-sore" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/10/03/itunes-music-sore</a><br><br>For those who like pictures. And don't already have it all RSS-ified up!
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<br>########################################################################<br>4. RSS Feeds? The Discussion Board!<br><br>RSS? On the Discussion board? Yes; it's true, "REALLY SUPER SYNDICATION"<br>is here at last, here at least, thank lord almighty, it's here at last!
<br><br> <a href="http://discussion.dreamhost.com/wwwthreads.pl" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://discussion.dreamhost.com/wwwthreads.pl</a><br><br>See all those little orange peels all over the place? That's some super
<br>feature for yah.<br><br>
<br>########################################################################<br>5. Who needs catch-alls? <a href="mailto:Not+you@dreamhost.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Not+you@dreamhost.com
</a>!<br><br>I think we've already had more than our fair share of totally awesome
<br>features for the month of September, plus three days, but I've been<br>wrong once before (I'm sure of it).<br><br>Which is why it never hurts to add a few more not-your-run-of-the-mill<br>features. Say for example, this one... a feature I'm pretty darn sure NO
<br>OTHER WEBHOST ON THE PLANET OFFERS. And I say this after literally years<br>of checking:<br><br>Starting right now, all your email addresses have a sneaky new feature:<br><br> Built-in catchalls!<br><br>How does it work? It's easy! For every email address we host you can add
<br>a + sign and then ANYTHING before the @, and it'll go to the same place.<br><br>So, if you have an email address like say:<br><br> <a href="mailto:josh@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
josh@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com</a><br>
<br>The following addresses now all go to the same place:<br><br> <a href="mailto:josh+ferrets@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh+ferrets@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com
</a><br> <a href="mailto:josh+jones@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
josh+jones@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:josh+dreamhost_spams_dont_they@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh+dreamhost_spams_dont_they@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com
</a><br><br>What's the point of that?<br><br>Well, now every time you have to give out your email address to somebody
<br>you hate, you tell them it's got a + in it and then some unique<br>identifier like:<br><br> <a href="mailto:josh+damnyousteve@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
josh+damnyousteve@ilovemoneyandbunnies.com</a><br><br>And then when they start spamming you some day, you can easily set up
<br>your mailbox to auto-delete messages sent to that address!<br><br>SUPER? More than its fair share.<br><br><br>########################################################################<br>6. Transferring a .com? .net? You need an auth code!
<br><br>Finally, the feature we've all been waiting for! I know you saw it up<br>there in the table of contents and were just DYING to get to it! But you<br>had to wade through all that other stuff first, because to skip around
<br>like that would be like getting a Mona Lisa beach towel.<br><br>It would violate the sanctity of my art.<br><br>I thank you for respecting my wishes, and reading this newsletter in the<br>order it was originally intended.
<br><br>You will not be disappointed. And I will make you wait no longer..<br><br>It's TRUE, .com and .net are finally switching to EPP.. which means<br>within the next few weeks (it should be by October 15th) to transfer a
<br>.com or .net domain *REGISTRATION* you'll need to get an auth code from<br>your existing registrar.<br><br>You can see your existing auth codes for domains registered through us<br>already at:<br><br> <a href="https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=domain.transfer" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=domain.transfer</a><br><br>Finally, you can relax. The superest of all supery features is past us.<br><br><br>########################################################################<br>
7. Old Charities? New Charities!
<br><br>Sigh, it seems like it's been like a quarter of a year since we had a<br>post like THIS in the newsletter. I'm getting all doe-eyed. SNIFF.<br><br>We're switching up the charities available for you to donate to and get
<br>your donations matched by us at:<br><br> <a href="https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.charity" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.charity
</a><br><br>The first place we're letting you donate to is "Defective By Design" ..
<br>the ones who are having a "Day Against DRM" which is what INSPIRED our<br>"Files Forever" service. At least to be launched today, probably a good<br>three to five years before it's ready.<br><br>
<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://defectivebydesign.org/</a><br><br>The other place we'll match you up on is "Santa's Helpers" (of Gonzales
<br>County, Texas, for some reason) .. a place that'll help get some kids
<br>some presents this Christmas if you give them some money. At the rate we<br>change charities, I figured NOW IS THE TIME.<br><br> <a href="http://www.santas-helpers.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.santas-helpers.org/</a><br><br>In retrospect, in July-September we got $904.21 from 36 people for the
<br>World Wildlife fund, matched it, and also got $383.32 from 17 people for<br>The Colorectal Cancer Coalition, and decided to match that too.<br><br>Aw...<br><br><br>########################################################################
<br>8. Network problems? Fixed!<br><br>Do you know I actually moved this section to number eight just so I<br>could do that LAME eight below joke above? I now realize how pitiful<br>that is. In fact, this whole section is nothing more than a cheesy way
<br>to bulk up this newsletter to be more SUPER after last month's dismal<br>excuse for a newsletter darkened your e-mailbox.<br><br>All I've got to say here is really, we've turned the corner and the<br>performance and stability problems we had much of the last two months
<br>are slowly fading into the setting sun. Literally. I'm not sure how it<br>could be literal, but I always like it when football announcers say<br>stuff like, "He literally knocked his head off on that hit!"<br>
<br>Anyway, Dallas splained it all a couple of weeks ago on ZE BLOG:<br><br> <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/09/19/anatomy-of-a-disaster-part-2/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/09/19/anatomy-of-a-disaster-part-2/
</a><br><br>SUPER?!<br><br>########################################################################<br>9. DHSOTM? DHSOTM!<br><br>Finally, the REAL secret of this month's newsletter has been revealed!<br><br>The DreamHost Site of the Month winner is none other than:
<br><br> <a href="http://www.santas-helpers.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.santas-helpers.org/</a><br><br>Look familiar? I promise, they actually won! In fact, that's why I made
<br>them a charity. Believe it or not, I wrote this section before section
<br>number 7. That's just the way my artistic soul had me do it. I can't<br>control it. I just have to be happy I've been blessed with such a gift<br>and do my best to share it with the world.<br><br>Get your own site all popular and make lots of money, bunny:
<br><br> <a href="https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.dhsotm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.dhsotm</a><br><br>That's what I'd do, if my soul weren't just in it for the love of my
<br>craft.<br><br><br>########################################################################
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