1. Good news!
First the good news: The tests are in and all DreamHost customers have
24 hours to live! The bad news is I meant to send this newsletter out
yesterday. HA! (I guess the good news is if you’re reading this the
tests were off by a day.)
The other GOOD news is we’ve just added a new great free “goodie” for
everybody to gobble up. Now you can install WordPress, the fast, full-
featured, stable, low-carb, easy-to-use, free, open source weblog
software on any fully-hosted DreamHost domain with just one click here:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=goodies.wordpress
Wordpress is pretty much just like Movable Type, which a lot of you may
be familiar with.. in fact, once you’ve installed it you can even
convert a Movable Type blog (or a bunch of other types) over to it
pretty easily by following the instructions you get emailed!
Why didn’t we make it so you could just install Movable Type itself
with
one click instead? Somewhat because Movable Type is a commercial
product,
and they would require us to do some sort of weird registration for all
our users with them in order to even install the free version. Also,
WordPress doesn’t require “rebuilding” your blog every time you
publish.
Mostly though, installing WordPress was eleven times easier for us.
