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Mediawiki much slower in Firefox

I've a couple of Mediawiki (1.19.1 with Vector Skin) sites on Dreamhost shared hosting and I've found that access trough Firefox is much slower than trough Chrome. For example at this moment, after cleaning the cache in both browsers: Firefox 11.1…
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550 “Overwrite permission denied” when editing a file via FTP

DreamHost recently moved my accounts to a new shared box, and now I can't edit files via UltraEdit's built in FTP client, which messes up my work flow! What did they do that this is not working now? It stopped working after they moved me. Here's the…
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What am I missing with the migration of my Wordpress Site from one Dreamhost Account to another?

I have spent at least 20 hours trying to figure this out at this point and just don't know what I am missing. I am moving a Wordpress site hosted on one Dreamhost Account to a different hosting account, but keeping the registration of the domain in…
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Dreamhost Shared Hosting - Increase post_max_size

I am using Dreamhost shared hosting running PHP 5.4 and I am trying to increase the file upload limit to 1 GB. I try to achieve that by using .user.ini and putting the following: upload_max_filesize = 1024M post_max_size = 1024M When I check the…
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How can Cloudlfare speed up PHP/MySQL?

My dreamhost plan offers me to use cloudflare CDN to speed up my pages. My page uses PHP/MySQL. I was wondering how this works, because everytime the page is loaded it must execute the PHP code and the MySQL query anyways on the dreamhost servers,…
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Are there any shared webhosts that offer Gmail or Google Apps as part of their package?

I see that Dreamhost is doing something like this but i am not clear how much extra it would cost me. Any other hosts?
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Url redirect in dreamhost without editing htaccess

We have a network of sites with an old link to a URL that doesn't exist anymore. We would like to redirect all the traffic to this URL to the new website, while we correct the old link in all the network sites. Since we are a student organization, I…
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Creating a Sub Domain on Dreamhost

I am trying to create a sub domain play.mink7.com i went to Domains and Add Domain and added the Subdomain. It created the DNS records. Now when i go to the website http://play.mink7.com am getting the following error Site Temporarily Unavailable…
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How often does Dreamhost change IP Addresses

So I just migrated our site to dreamhost because they are free for non-profits. However, right after I switched the nameservers over to them they changed the IP address of the site. So first they propagated out IP address x.x.x.180, then they…
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How to send hundreds of emails an hour with content personalized to each user?

There are more than 10 categories in my site, users can register more than one category. My PHP script prepares content for each category, according to user preferences. My script merges those contents for each user, so every user can get…
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Opening up a static url when using Passenger WSGI with Django?

I'm currently developing a site hosted on dreamhost, using django, which is served up through passenge wsgi. Right now, all requests are being passed to the django app. I'd like to be able to serve static content directly through apache, rather…
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DreamHost error when trying to add a domain: “You can't add that domain: you must add the parent domain"

I have hosting account on DreamHost I want to add my domain (which is registered outside Dreamhost) I have already changed nameservers. my domain is "xxxx.edu.eg" but I have the following problem: "You can't add that domain: you must add the…
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Client has set up a mirror on DreamHost, but original site is hosted elsewhere

Sorry. Newbie here. Picked up a client that needs has a blog through LexBlog. They want to recreate it on DreamHost and move all of the information over. She puchased her hosting through DreamHost and added the current domain. Then set up a mirror…
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Where is trac.ini?

I have set up trac with Dreamhost One-Click Install. The doc says config is in trac.ini but I can't see any under trac dir. Where would it be? I have no conf dir, ONLY admin, db, htdocs, prefs, etc...
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Dreamhost making a domain fully hosted without creating a new FTP every time

I'm having trouble setting up a domain to be fully hosted under a specific FTP user. When I go to Manage Domain -> Edit and under Fully Hosted, I only see the option to create a new user under User, Files and Paths. I want to set up the fully hosted…
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