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DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting, public cloud provider and domain name registrar.

DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based hosting, public cloud provider, and domain name registrar.

DreamHost's shared, , and dedicated hosting network consists of Apache, nginx and lighttpd web servers running on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Also included are 25+ apps including , Drupal, Joomla and Magento e-commerce along with free certificates, multi-factor authentication, and Whois privacy.

DreamHost Cloud offers cloud computing services and storage, based on and making it compatible with the most popular SDKs and configuration management tools. Its virtual servers are fast, ssh ready in 30 seconds (or less).

DreamHost's Cloud team welcomes contributions to the Cloud Knowledge Base on github and regularly hangs out on IRC freenode #dreamhost.

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Host my database and NodeJS application on the same server

Is it reasonable to host my database and NodeJS application on the same server? What are the pros/cons? I don't think horizontal scalability is a concern, since RethinkDB supports clustering. I'll be using Dokku on a DreamHost cloud server (aka…
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Two A records while I switch servers?

I am frantically running from dreamhost and their horrible products - but this leaves me with a interesting situation: 1 Website is 'fully hosted' through their webpanel - this auto creates the 'A' record to their server - this points to the correct…
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Accessing files from dreamcompute vps

I'm very new in this subject, but the problem is: I can't access files from a website to make small html edits. The only thing I know is that I need to make it using SSH. What I've tried: I generated a private and a public key of type SSH-1 (RSA)…
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Secure Domain.nl , Alias of SSL Certified Domain.com not working with .com's SSL Certificate

I have a .com site that is https with a Comodo certificate via Dreamhost. I also have https://cdn.domain.com with a unique ip address to make it play nice with MaxCDN. The site is run in two languages with WPML (WordPress Multilingual Plugin) and…
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Migrating Dreamhost Google Apps Account back to 1and1 then DNS to SquareSpace

So a little bit of background. The domain is controlled by my 1and1 account, which currently points DNS to Dreamhost's name servers. I setup Google Apps in the Dreamhost panel, creating custom MX records. I now need to forward the domain to…
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Migrate Rails app with passenger, capistrano(with rubber), and ImageMagick to Dreamhost

I have a beta app that a developer has made for my company and I need to clone their work onto another server. I have successfully backed up the MySQL database to another server and copied all their files over. They are running it as "betaQ. They…
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nginx VPS on Dreamhost using a lot of memory for two small sites

I have a similar problem to that of the user who posted High memory usage of WordPress hosted on DreamHost VPS. The reason this is a 'problem' is because when it maxes out the memory quota I set for my VPS it will begin serving 503 error pages for…
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Sharing git repo on DreamHost

I have a git repo on DreamHost that I would like to be able to share with other developers. I am only able to create it in my home directory. How do I get it so that other devs can access it via ssh? Here's what I've tried: I created a group, put…
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dreamhost | connecting mysql remotely over https

I am trying to Connect to a MySQL Database from Third-Party Programs as mentioned here: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/MySQL (see section: Connect to MySQL Database from Third-Party Programs) I have uploaded 'sqlbuddy' on another domain (hosted…
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Switching Servers, SSL domain, one vps?

Feeding off of this post. I have a domain with Dreamhost and i've purchased SSL certificate for it. I am moving over the server files to Linode but and setting the DNS in dreamhost to point over. Linode provides a ip but it's not dedicated. What is…
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Rails on Dreamhost dedicated alongside existing PHP apps

I'm a developer, and don't have much administration experience. The client wants to host a Rails 3.2 app on his Dreamhost dedicated server (running Debian) which already hosts a bunch of other sites (all have the same IP). I'm fine to go with…
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High memory usage of WordPress hosted on DreamHost VPS

Recently I see very high memory usage on VPS servers hosting my blog at DreamHost. There is not traffic increase in the recent months, but the memory usage is pushed by 250 MB. I tried looking at most frequently visited IPs in access.log files. But…
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.htaccess file being compromised

I have a website hosted with Dreamhost and the contents of my .htaccess file are being compromised over and over again. someone is putting stuff like this in the front of my code: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}…
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How does Dreamhost Restrict User Accounts?

Browsing around my shared hosting account on Dreamhost, I noticed that I could not create users if the name is already taken. I can cd /home/username if I created the username, but I can't cd /home/username if the username is not one I created. I…
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Using SSH to find access to a problematic script in logs of multiple domains

I run several (~20) sites on a Dreamhost VPS. Lately I max my memory allocation for the VPS and I want to find the problem. I would like to have an SSH script that will scan all the log files of all the domains and show me what object (image, php…
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