Talk:DreamObjects

Would this allow me to use WordPress with DreamObjects as CDN?
DreamObjects seems... tempting. It's not that I have lots of files to share. However, anything that improves caching on my major blogs is worth a try. So, since DreamObjects is API-compatible with Amazon S3, I wonder if it would be possible to use W3 Total Cache to connect to the DreamObjects repository instead, and let W3TC do its magic in pushing whatever it can into the cloud?

I know, I know — you will be saying "DreamHost doesn't recommend W3TC". We've gone through that before :) W3TC works beautifully if properly configured for WP — trading off performance for less memory consumption is the key — so I'm curious if anyone has tried to do this with DreamObjects.

I'm not a big fan of "experimenting" things without flat fees, because I tend to overspend my little budget just trying to tweak things until I'm happy with them. I had horrible experiences with Amazon S3 when doing so and stayed away from them!

Right now, unless I totally misunderstood how W3TC contacts CDNs, I couldn't get this working: W3TC will apparently always use Amazon S3's API server instead of contacting DreamObjects. The same happens when selecting the RackSpace API instead of the S3 API. It seems that the API endpoint is built-in in W3TC. I will also contact W3 Edge to see if there is a way to change this.

Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 05:07, 18 October 2012 (PDT)


 * A tentative attempt of hacking W3TC works — see an answer to a thread on the WordPress support forum for W3TC Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 08:02, 19 October 2012 (PDT)


 * Created a page here to explain how: Using WordPress with W3TC and DreamObjects It's basically the same as the link above but I keep updating it. Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 04:24, 22 October 2012 (PDT)