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0. Introduction.
1. Big Junkmail Changes!
2. One Click Entire Account Backups... Updated!
3. Shnazzy New DreamHost.com... With PS!
4. Upgrade All One-Clicks In... One Click!
5. New Charities!
6. DHSOTM
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0. Introduction.
Dun DUN dun dun dun dun dun, DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun du-du-du-dun!
Hello, and welcome to the July 2008 non-stop simulcast of the 116th
writing of the DreamHost Newsletter games: broadcast directly via email
and wiki readership to over 200,000 Happy DreamHost Spectators!
You'd better get used to that music NOW, because you're going to hear a
lot more of it for the next two and a half weeks! That's right, it's the
Olympics... of WEB HOSTING, and to celebrate, we're building a new $100,
000,000,000,000 data center the size of Cheng Du, in the shape of my
head/a giant squirrel.
I'll also be playing ping pong every day all day, and awarding myself a
record nine gold medals in awesomeness.
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1. Big Junkmail Changes!
I predict the Olympics of Web Hosting will become the most-watched web
hosting sporting event of all time. It will bring about global harmony
among all web hosts, including even those smallest of hosts who can only
afford to send one employee (probably to compete in one of the more
obscure sports like amavis configuration munging).
Sadly, they might as well keep their unpacked bags at home, saving
themselves $25 and a whole lot of painful, painful heartache. Because
only one place is bringing home the gold in amavis configuration munging,
and you probably have an pretty good idea who writes their newsletter.
In case you're from China, amavis is what's responsible for our junkmail
filtering, and we recently made some changes so you can now manage your
preferences (what level of spamminess you'd like messages tagged/what
level you'd like them quarantined) from our web panel directly at:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=mail.junk
You can also add blacklisted and whitelisted email addresses from there,
PLUS do all of the above on a domain-wide basis too!
Your email users can still manage their spam quarantine from webmail:
http://webmail.YOURDOMAIN.COM/
But they can ALSO do it from the mailbox-management area that I bet you
didn't even know we had at:
http://mailboxes.YOURDOMAIN.COM/
Yes, there's a lot you don't know about DreamHost. A lot. Lot. T. Like
the fact that a lot of our employees/competitors aren't even 15 yet. Nor
are they actually female. SHHHH.
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2. One Click Entire Account Backups... Updated!
Remember in the last Web Hosting Olypics of Web Hosting when CI Host got
disqualified for doping? Ha, that was hilarious! Especially when they
had to give back their half gold medal (it was a tie with Lunarpages) in
Synchronized Server Rebooting.
With such a great memory, you must also remember how last newsletter I
mentioned our new "Entire Account Backup" feature we have here?
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.backup
Well, I'm pleased to say after weeks of intensive training, the backup
feature is "back up" and even WORKING! At such an advanced age, it's no
surprise that there are some new limits to her might (no dbs or users >
4GB will be backed up), but she's also developed some wily new
techniques that come only with age (the backup is password protected).
How will this new Entire Account Backup feature fare in the Olympics of
Web Hosting? Well, it couldn't possibly do any worse than poor old Remap
Sub-directory in 2004.
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3. Shnazzy New DreamHost.com... With PS!
Everybody in the international community knows that in preparation of
the Olympics of Web Hosting we built the $100,000,000,000,000 Josh Jones
Squirrel Head Memorial Data Center, but far fewer know that we ALSO redid
our main website at a cost of only $13.52!
http://www.dreamhost.com/
Hate it or love it, you've got to admit it is new. And we're now a shoe-
in to win the Freestyle Website Photos competition, aesthetics be damned!
You may have noticed we've also now got DreamHost PS right there on the
front page! I know, not TOO exciting for you existing customers, but our
new signup form at:
https://signup.dreamhost.com/
is SO cool, I recommend you cancel and sign up again just to use it!
Or at least refer a friend and watch over their shoulder. Naked.
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4. Upgrade All One-Clicks In... One Click!
If you've got a lot of our Advanced one clicks set up over at:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=goodies.installer
you probably feel like a regular decathlete when it's time to one-click
upgrade each and every one of them! Sure, it's just one-click each, but
that can still be like: one-click, one-click, one-click, one-click, one-
click, one-click, one-click... like SEVEN one-clicks!
NOT ANYMORE.
Now there's a button at the bottom that makes upgrading ALL your one-
clicks to the newest version just.... one-click! It almost feels a bit
scary to have a button like that. But really, it should work. Fine. If
you're brave. And bold. And gold.
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5. New Charities!
With all those precious me[dt]als we'll soon be toting around, it's no
wonder we can afford to be so charitable and MATCH any donations you
Happy DreamHost Spectators make to one of our two featured charities at:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.charity
The last time it was SPCA-LA (the Society for the Possible Cruelty to
Animals) and Communities in School, and we raised $732.03 and $423.56
respectively, and then matched it, respectively. Reeeespect.
This time, let's see if we can set a new Olympics of Web Hosting record
and get a zillion billion donations for the Red Cross International
Relief Fund and Edurelief (books for Mongol school children) before
October!
With the attention of the entire international community focused on us
for the Olympics of Web Hosting, now is our chance to raise awareness as
never before for the plight of that international community!
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6. DHSOTM
There are bound to be some protests for this month's ceremonial
unveiling of this month's DreamHost Site of the Month winner, this month.
You see, there is a bubbling controversy about DreamHost's website-rights
record when it comes to this contest. Some claim that in the past sites
have been brutally teased, witheld the award for no good reason, and even
unfairly detained with no award for weeks.
Nevertheless, the DHSOTM party will continue, stronger than ever, more
than happy to quash any and all dissent, for the good of the dissenters!
This month is no exception. I happily provide to you:
http://www.whitneyandchristopher.com/
The "official" winner of the DreamHost Site of the Month for July, 2008!
It's a very nice wedding site for what I'm sure was a very nice wedding
in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.!! Focus on THAT, international community! The
wedding was in July, so how perfect to win the DHSOTM in the same month.
I hope the marriage is still going strong. And I hope it continues that
way when hundreds of thousands of Internet weirdos bombard their RSVP
form with naughty names like "Amanda Hugankiss" all thanks to a misguided
notion by Christopher to submit his contest for DHSOTM.
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.dhsotm
Is the place to go see the site who actually had a higher average vote
this month but still didn't win. Thank you, Russian judges!
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The (Domain) Redeem Team,
Josh Jones
P.S. Speaking of Web Hosting competitions, I was wondering if you had a
second, you could go to http://blog.dreamhost.com/ and click the "This
site nominated for Best Corporate Blog" link? And then vote for us?
We won last year without deserving it, and I'd like to keep that
tradition going.
P.P.S. No? Well, maybe you'll at LEAST go unsubscribe from the
newsletter at:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/id/?tab=contact
