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DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is the web hosting branch of New Dream Network, LLC, founded in April 1996 by Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez and Sage Weil, undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Image File history File links DreamHost_Icon. ...
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Claremont is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, USA, about 30 miles (45 km) east of downtown Los Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Pomona Valley. ...
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Sage Weil is the creator of the Webring concept. ...
A domain name registrar is a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to sell Internet domain names. ...
An example of rack mounted servers. ...
A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML...
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An example of rack mounted servers. ...
A domain name registrar is a company accredited, either by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), or by a national ccTLD authority or both, to register Internet domain names . ...
Sage Weil is the creator of the Webring concept. ...
Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective, private college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. ...
Claremont is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, USA, about 30 miles (45 km) east of downtown Los Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Pomona Valley. ...
Web hosting
 A screenshot of the post March 2007 DreamHost Control Panel DreamHost hosts over half a million domain names[1] on a network of mainly Debian GNU/Linux-based servers.[2] The company has deployed a unique control panel, devised by their own programmers [3], that includes integrated billing and support ticket systems. The control panel used by DreamHost is markedly different from the popular cPanel software used by many commercial web hosting companies and this has resulted in some customers reporting transition difficulties as they get used to the unconventional system. The majority of hosted domains exist within a shared hosting environment, with a small percentage of customers on dedicated servers. All accounts can have shell access. Initially available by invitation only,[4] DreamHost offers a virtual private server service using Linux-VServer.[5] The company does not publish a telephone number for its customers to contact them, but does offer 24-hour email-based support with limited telephone support in the form of a varying number of "callbacks".[6] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 501 pixel Image in higher resolution (1008 × 631 pixel, file size: 115 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) DreamHost control panel screenshot, as of March 2007. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 501 pixel Image in higher resolution (1008 × 631 pixel, file size: 115 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) DreamHost control panel screenshot, as of March 2007. ...
Debian is a free operating system. ...
cPanel (Control Panel) is a graphical web-based web-hosting control panel, designed to make administration of websites easy. ...
A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service is a form of web hosting service where more than one instance of the same web server is hosted on a single physical server. ...
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In computing, a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users (command line interpreter). ...
A virtual private server (also referred to as virtual dedicated server or virtual server, and abbreviated VPS or VDS) is a method of partitioning one physical server computer into multiple servers that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. ...
Linux-VServer is a virtual private server implementation done by adding operating system-level virtualization capabilities to the Linux kernel. ...
Domain registration DreamHost is an ICANN-accredited[7] domain name registrar. The company previously operated the .la top-level domain, allocated to the country of Laos, which it marketed as a domain for the city of Los Angeles. It stopped operating it in April 2006 because it reportedly received only "one registration a day".[8] ICANN headquarters ICANN (IPA /aɪkæn/) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ...
.la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos. ...
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Transparency DreamHost is notable for being unusually transparent about its business practices, with staff contributing to a popular blog.[9][10] A disastrous power outage incident[11] in August of 2006 led to a frank account of what happened by Josh Jones that set a particular tone for the future. It was followed by the creation of a status site dedicated to detailing server maintenance and outages.[12][13]
2007 Security issue According to the company,[14] the control panel was thought to have been partly to blame for a June 2007 incident in which approximately 3,500 of the 500,000 (less than 1%) FTP account passwords were compromised.[15] Customers were notified by email, and a few found their sites had been altered to deliver malware. Upon further investigation, new evidence came to light that cast doubt on the theory that the control panel was responsible.[16] Dreamhost s-u-c-k-s a-s-s It has been suggested that Grayware be merged into this article or section. ...
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