A month ago, we let you know that the DreamHost Personal Backup feature was retiring. That day has come, Personal Backup has been turned off permanently.

Please feel free to submit a support request through the DreamHost panel if you have any questions or concerns! Please include “personal backup” in the subject.

Happy DreamHost Improvement Bot

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I was using Dreamhost Personal Backup to backup my website database and sites periodically.  The free capacity is 50GB. It was a wonderful place to do the backup with ftp protocol.

Let us look at the email from DreamHost.

We’re writing to tell you that the Personal Backup feature you’ve been using has become too dated to be sustainable, and is being retired. Please note that starting 2015-07-24 Personal Backup will be turned off permanently. If you decide you don’t want to keep your data, no action is necessary.

If you would like to preserve your data, you should download it before 2015-07-24. Instructions for how to do so are available here.

Dreamhost did provide an option to store data. DreamObjects. It is kind of CDN, oh no. It is similar to Amazon S3.  It is a cloud storage. Pay as you go.

DreamObjects’ storage is only 2.5¢/GB per month and downloads are 5¢/GB. Uploads are free!

Go to Dreamhost Cloud Storage, or DreamObjects, to have a look.

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Anyway, I did the upgrade from 2.4 to v2.6 today.

The upgrade procedures are simple. See following upgrade guide. For me, I just did step 1, 2,3.

1. backup your database and your “data” folder
2. (IMPORTANT: don’t delete the “data” folder) delete all old files and folders excluding the folder “data”
3. upload all new files and folders excluding the data folder (IMPORTANT: also upload the invisible .htaccess files)
4. Rename your folder /data/icons into /data/favicons
5. Delete the files /public/all.css and /public/all.js
6. Clean your browser cache
7. insert your current database connection and your individual configuration in config.ini. Important: we change the config.ini and add new options in newer versions. You have to update the config.ini too.

Changelog

Version 2.6
* fixed OPML import for other formats (thanks a lot to Remy Gardette)
* fix deletion of sources (no longer bad request)
* disable tag click on smartphone
* shortcuts mark/unmark as read and star/unstar also available on closed articles
* fix tag list refresh

Version 2.5
* new navigation with right/left cursor (thanks a lot to jicho)
* replace • for IE compatibility
* fix re-initialize entry events on screen width change (thanks a lot to Sean Rand)
* allow optional userdefined user.css (thanks a lot to Jean Baptiste Favre)
* some smaller css tweaks (thanks a lot to Sean Rand)
* new parameter use_system_font for using Arial instead of Open Sans
* new italian language file (thanks a lot to David Chionne)
* fix duplicate article fetching on uids with more than 255 characters
* add integrated json api
* add error handling for feeds with wrong link
* new swedish translation (thanks a lot to andersgd)

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Selfoss is an OpenSource replacement of Google Reader. Look at the following features.

• web based rss reader
• universal aggregator
• open source and free
• easy extendable with an open plugin system (write your own data connectors)
• mobile support (Android, iOS, iPad)
• use selfoss to live stream and collect all your posts, tweets, feeds in one place
• lightweight PHP application with less than 2 MB
• supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sqlite Databases
• OPML Import
• easy installation: upload and run

I installed selfoss 2.3 when I heard the RIP news of Google Reader.  Now it is v2.4.

I am just upgrade my selfoss to v2.4.

The release notes of v2.4. I make the one bold I like.

Version 2.4
* prevent error on icons parsing error
* new homepage parameter (thanks a lot to Jean Baptiste Favre)
* new button for open an articles source
* no error message if no unread item is available and mark all as read was pressed
* improve logger
* readability is now available as spout instead as global parameter
* new share buttons for google+, twitter and facebook
* mysql use longtext for articles content
* improved detection of mobile devices
* allow more tags in articles content
* show unread items per tag in taglist (thanks a lot to Fedor Bezrukov)
* show list of sources for filtering (thanks a lot to Fedor Bezrukov)
* use more eye catching unread stats in main navigation
* show source title in selfoss RSS feed (thanks a lot to Darkwing1)
* load sources for update by last update time (thanks a lot to Lars Formella)
* Opening feed search focuses the search input field
* Scroll blockquotes and pre on overflow (especially good for mobile devices)
* new option for automatically mark items as read
* new share buttons for email and pocket (thanks a lot to Francis Noel)
* new shortcut r for reloading the current list
* new internationalization (language files for German, English, French, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Latvian, traditional and simplified Chinese included)
* make article id generation more reliable
* fix some font issues
* fix JavaScript error in login screen
* autofocus username on login
* add open in new window button for mobile view
* allow choosing tags in article list
* concurent multiples updates makes no longer duplicates entries
* Reload items on mark as read
* anonymizer support
* selfoss rss feed support tag filtering (?tag=) (thanks a lot to Francis Noel)
* fix tag render bug

I installed it on Dreamhost, the hosting place I am using for more than 8 years. This is my seloss site: http://r.yinfor.com/

Update: I install the latest one 2.5 from GitHub, it fixed the bug 208:

fix duplicate article fetching on uids with more than 255 characters

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Step 1:
Set up a new domain, subdomain, or folder for Sugar.

Step 2:
Set up a new MySQL database in Dreamhost Web Panel. Write down the mysql host name, user name, password and database name.

Step 3:
Download the latest Community Edition of SugarCRM. It is free version. Then, unzip into a folder such as /home/yourUserName/sitename.yourdomain.com/CRM/

Step 4:
To enable full functionality of SugarCRM (specifically, uploading modules and upgrades (especially over 7MB)) under PHP 5.3, you will need to add the following lines to ~/.php/5.3/phprc (create it if it doesn’t exist):

post_max_size = 40M

upload_max_size = 40M

max_input_time = 999

memory_limit = 128M

upload_max_filesize = 40M

suhosin.executor.include.whitelist = upload

Then, do a killall -9 p0hp53.cgi to restart PHP 5.3.

Step 5:

From the web browser, enter the web address of the Sugar folder. http://sitename.yourdomain.com/CRM/

It will show the installation wizard

Step 6

The informatin sheet will ask for the folders and files permission to be changed to writeable by Web Server user.

• cache
• custom
• data
• modules
• config.php

The rest is simple, I think it is no problem to everyone. You can choose to install it without sample data or with sample data.

If the permissions are wrong, it will looks wired on layout.

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Con
Yes, as I said, nothing is perfect.
When you use too much CPU, they may kill the threads automatically.
I recommend Dreamhost to small business.

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1) SSH to hosting.mydomain.com with ftp2010 account
2) Run following command

rsync -e  ssh -av /home/ftp2010/ ftp2011@hosting.yourdomain.com:/home/ftp2011/

It will promote you to enter the password ftp2011. Just enter it and press return.

3) After finished the transferring, the files and folders are all in ftp2011 account and same as ftp2010
Because I want it automatically, I saved it into a sh file named copyfiles.sh. Add a crontab task in Dreamhost web panel. Run it every two hours.
There is still a problem for password entering. I doing search on Dreamhost wiki and find the post of passwordless ssh login. It can solve this problem.

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Follow my step by step howto.
1) Login https://panel.dreamhost.com
2) Domains > Manage Domain
3) Click EDIT link of the domain which has Movabletype on.
4) Just under Users, Files, and Paths
Click the pulldown menu of users, choose create a new user.
5) After enter the new user name, then new option shows that
Move files to the new user?
Keep it as checked.
6) Click the blue “Change Settings” button.
After few minutes, all files under this domain, will be copied to new user account.
Then the 500 internal error gone.
You can use linux command top to check how much memory used per user.

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It’s being killed for requesting an amount of RAM (memory) that puts the
total usage for the account over the limit:
2010-08-05 10:58:17 procwatch2 INFO: Process(pid=28759, name=’mt.cgi’,
uid=davidyin(1659020), tty=None, cpu=49.7, rss=52068.0, vsize=102664.0):
kill for total RAM
That’s from the process monitoring logs. It’s likely the amount of data
it’s needing to do its job isn’t the problem, but your total usage is so
close to the limit, that’s puts it over. In fact, you’ve got more than 10
thousand kills in the logs, so this is not an isolated occurrence. Your
total usage is hitting the RAM limit very often, so it’s possible one or
more of your sites has a bit of high usage, and needs to be addressed to
reduce the occurrence of this. This article may help you track down
what’s using the most memory:

Yes, I think I put too many sites on my account on Dreamhost. The memory is the bottleneck.
I run linux command “top” in ssh window, when I rebuild the blog. Almost the maximum memory I use is about 120MB.
So I think 120MB memory is the limit for shared account.
If you want to know how I solve it without upgrade to DH VPS, see my next post.

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FileETag none
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A86400
ExpiresByType application/javascript A8640000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A8640000
ExpiresByType text/css A8640000
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A8640000
ExpiresByType image/gif A6048000
ExpiresByType image/png A6048000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A6048000
ExpiresByType application/pdf A6048000
ExpiresByType text/html A300
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css application/javascript

The second improvement I made is do not use external domain’s images. Put all images on the same site. It reduce the DNS loolup time.
It took me about 10 minutes to implement this optimization.

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wget http://downloads.zend.com/optimizer/3.3.3/ZendOptimizer-3.3.3-linux-glibc23-i386.tar.gz

4) Decompress it.

tar xvfz ZendOptimizer-3.3.3-linux-glibc23-i386.tar.gz

5)

cd ZendOptimizer-3.3.3-linux-glibc23-i386

6) We use complied ZendOptimizer so file.

cd data/5_2_x_comp

7) There are two files.
ZendOptimizer.so is the complied file.

8) Copy this file to the PHP installation folder.

cp ZendOptimizer.so ~/jiuan4/php5/lib/php/

Now ZendOptimizer 3.3.3 installation finished.

9) To enable ZendOptimizer, you need to edit your domain’s php.ini file.

cd php5/etc/php5/youdomainname

10) Edit php.ini file.

vi php.ini

11) Go to the end of file, add the following.

; Zend Optimizer options
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension=/home/<em>yourusername</em>/php5/lib/php/ZendOptimizer.so

12) Make a phpinfo() file to test it.
You will see the following screen.

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vi installscript

5) Hit i for insert mode, then right-click to paste your clipboard (the install script) contents, then hit Esc, type :wq (that’s ‘colon’, ‘w’, ‘q’), and press Enter to save and exit.
6) Make the file executable by entering the command:

chmod +x installscript

7) Run the script by entering the command:

./installscript

8) After it has finished you will need to edit your htaccess file appropriately. Add the following:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler php-cgi .php
Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php.cgi
<FilesMatch "^php5?.(ini|cgi)$">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from env=REDIRECT_STATUS
</FilesMatch>

to a file called .htaccess and place it in the root folder of your domain you specified above (/home/YOUR USERNAME/YOUR DOMAIN HERE/.htaccess)
I have a post tell you how to install PHP 5.2.0 on Dreamhost in Chinese last December.

#!/bin/sh
# Script updated 2006-12-25 by Carl McDade (hiveminds.co.uk) to allow memory limit and freetype
#
# Script updated 2007-11-24 by Andrew (ajmconsulting.net) to allow 3rd wget line to pass
# LIBMCRYPT version information (was set as static download file name previously.)
#
# Save the code to a file as *.sh
# Abort on any errors
#
set -e
# The domain in which to install the PHP CGI script.
export DOMAIN="your.domain.com"
# Where do you want all this stuff built? I'd recommend picking a local
# filesystem.
# ***Don't pick a directory that already exists!*** We clean up after
# ourselves at the end!
SRCDIR=${HOME}/source
# And where should it be installed?
INSTALLDIR=${HOME}/php5
# Set DISTDIR to somewhere persistent, if you plan to muck around with this
# script and run it several times!
DISTDIR=${HOME}/dist
# Pre-download clean up!!!!
rm -rf $SRCDIR $DISTDIR
# Update version information here.
PHP5="php-5.2.5"
LIBICONV="libiconv-1.11"
LIBMCRYPT="libmcrypt-2.5.7"
LIBXML2="libxml2-2.6.27"
LIBXSLT="libxslt-1.1.18"
MHASH="mhash-0.9.7.1"
ZLIB="zlib-1.2.3"
CURL="curl-7.14.0"
LIBIDN="libidn-0.6.8"
CCLIENT="imap-2004g"
CCLIENT_DIR="imap-2004g" # Another pest!
FREETYPE="freetype-2.2.1"
# What PHP features do you want enabled?
PHPFEATURES="--prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-config-file-path=${INSTALLDIR}/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}
--enable-fastcgi
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
--with-xml
--with-libxml-dir=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-freetype-dir=${INSTALLDIR}
--enable-soap
--with-openssl=/usr
--with-mhash=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-mcrypt=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-zlib-dir=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr
--with-png-dir=/usr
--with-gd
--enable-gd-native-ttf
--enable-memory-limit
--enable-ftp
--enable-exif
--enable-sockets
--enable-wddx
--with-iconv=${INSTALLDIR}
--enable-sqlite-utf8
--enable-calendar
--with-curl=${INSTALLDIR}
--enable-mbstring
--enable-mbregex
--enable-bcmath
--with-mysql=/usr
--with-mysqli
--without-pear
--with-gettext
--with-imap=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-imap-ssl=/usr"
# ---- end of user-editable bits. Hopefully! ----
# Push the install dir's bin directory into the path
export PATH=${INSTALLDIR}/bin:$PATH
# set up directories
mkdir -p ${SRCDIR}
mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR}
mkdir -p ${DISTDIR}
cd ${DISTDIR}
# Get all the required packages
wget -c http://us.php.net/get/${PHP5}.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
wget -c http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/gnu/libiconv/${LIBICONV}.tar.gz
wget -c http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mcrypt/${LIBMCRYPT}.tar.gz
wget -c ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/${LIBXML2}.tar.gz
wget -c ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/${LIBXSLT}.tar.gz
wget -c http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mhash/${MHASH}.tar.gz
wget -c http://www.zlib.net/${ZLIB}.tar.gz
wget -c http://curl.haxx.se/download/${CURL}.tar.gz
wget -c http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/${FREETYPE}.tar.gz
wget -c ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libidn/${LIBIDN}.tar.gz
wget -c ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/old/${CCLIENT}.tar.Z
echo ---------- Unpacking downloaded archives. This process may take several minutes! ----------
cd ${SRCDIR}
# Unpack them all
echo Extracting ${PHP5}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${PHP5}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${LIBICONV}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBICONV}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${LIBMCRYPT}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBMCRYPT}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${LIBXML2}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBXML2}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${LIBXSLT}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBXSLT}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${MHASH}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${MHASH}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${ZLIB}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${ZLIB}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${CURL}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${CURL}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${LIBIDN}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBIDN}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${CCLIENT}...
uncompress -cd ${DISTDIR}/${CCLIENT}.tar.Z |tar x
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${FREETYPE}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${FREETYPE}.tar.gz
echo Done.
# Build them in the required order to satisfy dependencies.
#libiconv
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBICONV}
./configure --enable-extra-encodings --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
#libxml2
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBXML2}
./configure --with-iconv=${INSTALLDIR} --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
#libxslt
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBXSLT}
./configure --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-libxml-prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-libxml-include-prefix=${INSTALLDIR}/include/
--with-libxml-libs-prefix=${INSTALLDIR}/lib/
# make clean
make
make install
#zlib
cd ${SRCDIR}/${ZLIB}
./configure --shared --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
#libmcrypt
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBMCRYPT}
./configure --disable-posix-threads --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
#libmcrypt lltdl issue!!
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBMCRYPT}/libltdl
./configure --prefix=${INSTALLDIR} --enable-ltdl-install
# make clean
make
make install
#mhash
cd ${SRCDIR}/${MHASH}
./configure --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
#freetype
cd ${SRCDIR}/${FREETYPE}
./configure --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
#libidn
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBIDN}
./configure --with-iconv-prefix=${INSTALLDIR} --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
#cURL
cd ${SRCDIR}/${CURL}
./configure --with-ssl=${INSTALLDIR} --with-zlib=${INSTALLDIR}
--with-libidn=${INSTALLDIR} --enable-ipv6 --enable-cookies
--enable-crypto-auth --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install
# c-client
cd ${SRCDIR}/${CCLIENT_DIR}
make ldb
# Install targets are for wusses!
cp c-client/c-client.a ${INSTALLDIR}/lib/libc-client.a
cp c-client/*.h ${INSTALLDIR}/include
#PHP 5
cd ${SRCDIR}/${PHP5}
./configure ${PHPFEATURES}
# make clean
make
make install
#copy config file
mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR}/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}
cp ${SRCDIR}/${PHP5}/php.ini-dist ${INSTALLDIR}/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}/php.ini
#copy PHP CGI
mkdir -p ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin
chmod 0755 ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin
cp ${INSTALLDIR}/bin/php ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin/php.cgi
rm -rf $SRCDIR $DISTDIR
echo ---------- INSTALL COMPLETE! ----------

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