Do you have any PHP projects running on Dreamhost? If you haven't checked in on them in a while, *HEADS UP!*

Dreamhost may be charging you $5/month if your website is on an unsupported PHP version. That’s anything below 8.2.

PHP 8.5 Active Support
PHP 8.4 Active Support
PHP 8.3 Security Updates only
PHP 8.2 Security Updates only

Try to update your PHP to at least 8.4 so you get active support, and your developers can do *even more awesome things*

#PHP #Dreamhost #WebDev

Has anyone had any problems with DreamHost? I had a blog with them for 15 years. I shut it down 10 years ago. It was a good experience, so I thought I'd give them my business again.

I signed up for an account. They said that my account would have to be approved. Ten minutes later, they sent an email that said:

"Unfortunately, your DreamHost account has not been approved.… We wish you the best of luck in your search for a web host."

WTF?! Why does my account even have to be approved in the first place? Even if it does, what criteria do they use? Where do they get the data they evaluate to see if I'm worthy?

I sent them an email asking what happened. They wrote back:

"We are not able to provide specific details about the reasons for the account not being approved."

This whole thing smells rotten and probably discriminatory.

#DreamHost

Today is a day of #freedom for me. I am migrating from Google Workspace to #dreamhost! In 2010 I got a free Google Apps account for 10 users, which they rebranded as G-Suite. But then they ditched that brand to call it Google Workspaces and in so doing did the switch of their bait and switch act, charging us a per user fee. I had to delete a bunch of users. Now as noted I will be free of google workspaces.

I'm reading #Enshittification by @pluralistic which makes me even happier that I am quitting Google Workspaces.

I've also switched default web browser on iPhone to Duck Duck Go, and on Mac I'm using https://kagi.com

🚀 How DreamHost Slashed Memory Usage by 80% & Scaled to 76M+ Time Series!

As businesses grow, #monitoring tools can reach their limits. #DreamHost, which manages over 1.5M websites, faced high resource usage with open-source solutions.