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DreamHost adds one-click support for Mambo

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Just got this email:

Hey Happy DreamHost Content-Managing Customers!

Just in case you don't get the newsletter, or don't like it, 
we're also announcing the fact that there's a new one-click 
install here:

     https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=goodies.installer

It's "Mambo" (see http://www.mamboserver.com/), the hugely 
popular open source CMS software.

Yippee!
The Happy DreamHost One-Click Announcement Team

I’ve heard good things about Mambo from a friend of mine who uses it to manage a gaming clan site, but I’ve never played with it myself.

DreamHost has added Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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Cool! Just got an email from DreamHost today:

Hey!

This is just a note to let you know that we’ve now completed the suggestion:

“Install all Ruby libraries and Ruby on Rails (including FastCGI extension).”

from the category “Software Installations”.

Ruby on Rails with FastCGI is now officially supported by DreamHost!

Very cool. Now I can start messing around with Rails, which I’ve heard a lot of good buzz about.

Dreamhost “777” promotion still active

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Rumor is that DreamHost’s “777” coupon code is still active.

DreamHost’s 777 promotion code allows new DreamHost customers to sign up for the basic plan, which normally costs $9.95/mo, at $0.77/mo for the first year.

If you ask me, that’s a steal of a deal for 120 GB of bandwidth, 2.4 GB of disk space, and one free domain registration.

Ready to sign up? Click here!

Gotta love DreamHost

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Just got this email from the folks at DreamHost:

Hello Happy DreamHost Customers!

This is the time where we announce everything that was in the newsletter but without the sillyness.

So first off, all current shared hosting customers have just had their disk space allotments tripled, FOREVER!

That puts us at the certifiably insane monthly levels of:

CDI: 120GB Bandwidth, 2400 MB Disk
SD: 144GB Bandwidth, 4800 MB Disk
CM: 192GB Bandwidth, 7680 MB Disk
SB: 264GB Bandwidth, 11040 MB Disk

You don’t have to do anything to get these new levels, it’s already been done for you.

How unusual and refreshing, in this day and age, for a company to give you more, and without you even asking? These guys actually want to keep their current customers happy.

If you want to sign up for DreamHost, click here.

DNS for DreamHost MySQL flaky?

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I’ve noticed that the DNS for my MySQL host is very flaky. On three
separate instances in the last two days, I’ve discovered it to be not
working for several minutes at a time (“rept” is a personal bash
function of mine that repeats a given command every n seconds):

09:45 msabramo@leeloo:~$ rept 5 ping marcblog.abramowitz.info
ping: unknown host marcblog.abramowitz.info
ping: unknown host marcblog.abramowitz.info
ping: unknown host marcblog.abramowitz.info

and then a few minutes later, it resolved itself:

09:49 msabramo@leeloo:~$ rept 5 ping marcblog.abramowitz.info
PING marcblog.abramowitz.info (205.196.215.97): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 205.196.215.97: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=4.9 ms
64 bytes from 205.196.215.97: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=1.7 ms
64 bytes from 205.196.215.97: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=14.0 ms

The same exact thing happened to me a few minutes ago and also yesterday evening, although I’m not
sure exactly what time it was.

This sucks, because when it happens my blog is down. I guess WordPress generates the site on the fly and thus requires MySQL (MovableType generates the site as static content so it doesn’t depend on MySQL to view the site).

I am thinking of changing my WordPress config to reference the IP address instead of the hostname, but this sounds less than ideal. What if DreamHost changes the IP from time to time?

I’ve submitted two support requests to DreamHost – we’ll see how well they tackle support…

Anyone else seeing this?