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Keeping the Web Open

Keeping the Web Open

by Brett Dunst

In a lot of ways, DreamHost is an old company. We were founded in 1997, and the web was a very different place back then. It was a ...

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12 Things to Know About the GDPR and Data Security

by Brett Dunst

Personal data — it’s a buzz phrase that’s flooding the news and forcing us to think about our online identity and how it’s being used by ...

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DreamHost is GDPR Compliant

by Brett Dunst

Did you happen to catch Mark Zuckerberg getting reamed this week by members of the European Parliament as he dodged one question after an ...

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New Remixer ‘Create’ Feature Makes Building a Polished Website Faster and Easier

by Ralph Castro

On the hunt for the perfect site builder? We now offer WP Website Builder, a suite of premium tools and plugins that make it even easi ...

Why Your Website Still Matters in 2018

Why Your Website Still Matters in 2018

by Dallas Kashuba

A great website is an online expression of your image or personality. So it should reflect you, as an individual or as a company, in a ...

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Jetpack Professional Now Comes with DreamPress

by John Robison

Time sure does fly! It feels like only yesterday that we announced the addition of Jetpack Premium to our DreamPress plans. The goal w ...

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A Win for Privacy Is a Win for the Web

by Brett Dunst

We’ve got great news for internet users around the world today: We did it. We made the internet better. The Backstory This month Drea ...

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Narrowing the Scope

by Brett Dunst

News broke today that the Department of Justice filed a reply with the court to modify its original request for information connected ...

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DreamHost Goes to Washington

by Brett Dunst

We took a stand this week against a request from the Department of Justice and what we viewed to be an overly-broad request for records. ...

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We Fight for the Users

by Brett Dunst

For the past several months, DreamHost has been working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process, including a Search War ...

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Canada RULES: Net Neutrality

by Brett Dunst

Canada is the best!  Who would have thought that our neighbor to the north’s humble origins as a dumping ground for people angry ab ...

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Cloudflare on DreamHost Just Got Better

by John Robison

Cloudflare offers a content distribution network that protects and accelerates your website without adding hardware, installing software, o ...

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Introducing the DreamShield (formerly Malware Remover)

by DreamHost

DreamHost offers several ways to help you keep your website safe (Web Application Firewalls, grsecurity kernels, Let’s Encrypt Ce ...

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DreamHost Domain Privacy Update

by Brett Dunst

For over a decade we’ve provided private domain registration as an option when you register certain types of top level domains wi ...

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DreamHost Cloud Just Got Easier

by DreamHost

Today DreamHost launched the alpha version of an easy-to-use control panel for DreamCompute. The new Cloud Control Panel is the produc ...