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Installing Magento Commerce on DreamHost

TheAdmin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:15:23 +0000

Getting Magento installed on DreamHost has never been easier. GimmeSoda.com has a script which handles the install for you!

Installing Magento Commerce on DreamHost – A PS machine is recommended! Click the link to read more.

Quick (Mini) Twitter Contest

TheAdmin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:39:48 +0000

We’re looking to add more hosts to our system, but since things are a little on the tight side we want to make sure we’re picking YOUR popular hosting company. So we are running a quick twitter contest, here is what you need to do:

1) Follow @WhereToHost on twitter: http://twitter.com/WhereToHost

2) Send a message @WhereToHost telling us who your favorite web host is and why.

We’ll look over the messages and select the most creative, that person will get a free domain – heck we may give more then one.

–The WTH Team!

http://twitter.com/WhereToHost

BlueHost.com Developing cPanel Backup Addon

TheAdmin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:46:38 +0000

BlueHost

Bluehost.com president Matt Heaton posted to his blog on the 20th of January about the pain of backups. Included in this post is information regarding the solution they have developed and plan to release; a kernel patch that creates a list of modified files which should be backed up. Matt claims that using this system has given Bluehost an increase of 10x over their previous method of creating backups.

They also plan on releasing the addon they are creating. Check out the post over on Matt Heaton’s blog.

zenPhoto and DreamHost

TheAdmin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:41:48 +0000

DreamHost and zenPhoto Review

When looking over DreamHost and their compatibility with zenPhoto I found that they have an “Easy One Click” install available. This means two things:

It extremely simple to go from nothing to installed in no time flat.
DreamHost and zenPhoto are extremely compatible.

In fact I put together a quick video of the installation process. Enjoy!

[See post to watch Flash video]

Signup For DreamHost! – Get $50 Off With “WTH” Promo Code

Features of zenPhoto – from the zenPhoto website.

Internationalization/localization

Multi-lingual titles and descriptions

Plugin system

Slideshow

Automatically generated thumbnails, custom crops possible!, and sized-down images

Upload via FTP or via the admin interface

Move/copy/rename images and albums without loosing any data

Upload images, albums (folders) or even zip-archives

Comments on images and albums with powerful spam filters

AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse

Sub albums; interface for moving/renaming images and albums.

Video support for Flash Video (.flv), MPEG4 (.mp4), Quicktime (.mov) and 3GP (.3gp)

Audio support for MP3 and MP4

Password protection for gallery and albums

EXIF and IPTC support

Watermarks for images

Powerful search with boolean expressions

Tags: Categorize you images with tags

Image and album rating

Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches!

Highly customizable theme engine

rss for gallery, albums and comments

Multiple administrative users with varying rights

Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite

DreamHost, New Year’s Discounts

TheAdmin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:13:07 +0000

DreamHost

It looks like DreamHost has had specials running since the first of the year! Unfortunately people who are barely hearing about this missed out on the 95%, 90%, and 80% off two year deals!

The currently running discount (as of 01/07/09) is 20% off two years of hosting by using the 227 promo code.

http://www.dreamhost.com/