January 29th, 2013

Ceph-Powered DreamObjects Now Ready For Production Use

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DreamObjects, DreamHost’s scalable cloud storage solution built atop Ceph, is now available to the general public. DreamObjects offers APIs compatible with Amazon S3 and Swift, making data migrations (in or out) fairly easy. And to celebrate the announcement, DreamHost is offering introductory pricing for new customers. → Read More

October 17th, 2012

How Media Temple and Dreamhost Differ In Approach To Offering Cloud Services

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This week comes the news about Media Temple and its plans with Dell and Morphlabs to give customers their own “private cloud,” consisting of a souped up Flash-filled server, complete with all the fixings for automating the mind bending complexity when adopting a new infrastructure. → Read More

October 15th, 2012

Dreamhost Builds New Public Cloud On OpenStack As Market Shows Signs Of Federation

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Dreamhost has built a public cloud service called DreamCompute that is built on OpenStack, the open cloud infrastructure. The new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) shows how a federated, universal cloud will bind open and proprietary offerings to give customers a greater choice and enhance the value of the overall market. → Read More

September 11th, 2012

Inktank Raises $1 Million To Further Services Play For Ceph — A New Storage Technology

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Inktank has raised $1 million in the form of a convertible note from Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth to further services play for Ceph — an open source, next-generation, distributed storage technology.

Inktank is led by DreamHost Co-Founder Sage Weil, who formed the company after developing Ceph over the past several years, starting with his work at the University of Caliornia, Santa Cruz. → Read More

September 5th, 2012

DreamHost Enters Cloud Storage Fray With Ceph-Powered DreamObjects

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In the beginning there was Amazon Simple Storage Service. And it was good. Soon after came Rackspace Cloud Files. And it was good. Today DreamHost is announcing their DreamObjects cloud storage solution to offer customers another hosted storage option.

DreamObjects storage is provided by Ceph, the distributed object store created by DreamHost co-founder Sage Weil. Ceph itself offers API… → Read More

January 29th, 2012

DreamHost’s Unhappy January Continues: First, A Database Breach, Now An Outage

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DreamHost has been having a rough couple weeks. The low-cost hosting provider and domain name registrar found some unauthorized activity in its databases back on January 20th, which they later admitted were a series of attacks that may have led to the theft of some of their customers’ FTP passwords. The company required mandatory password resets for all their Shell/FTP accounts — you can read our→ Read More

December 14th, 2009

Chartbeat Brings Realtime Analytics to TypePad and DreamHost

If Google Analytics just isn’t fast enough for you, there’s Chartbeat, a betaworks company which provides realtime analytics to Website owners. It gives Website publishers a second-by-second view of the number of visitors on their site, which pages are spiking in popularity, referring sites, as well as alerts on slow load times and server crashes. It is particularly useful for blogs.

Today… → Read More