Announcing: DayDream

(The following post first appeared on our main website several weeks ago, but was only made available to a small number of users.)

DayDream is an administrative tool for anyone who uses DreamHost. You enter your login email address and DreamHost API key, and in response DayDream will enable you to…

• View a list of all of the domains that you are hosting with DreamHost.
• View Email Accounts for each of those domains, and view emails for any of those accounts! In the next build we’ll include the ability to delete emails, and potentially preview them before they have been downloaded.
• Transfer files (via FTP) between your PC and any of your DreamHost domains. In the future we’ll add synchronization functionality, and the ability to FTP using multiple threads, download entire sites / directories, etc.
• Easily view traffic stats (provided by DreamHost) for any of your domains. Hopefully the DreamHost API will eventually allow us to integrate this feature more smoothly, and we may ultimately build our own analysis engine.
• View information about your Announcement Lists, and compose and send plain text or html announcements! There seems to be a size issue with sending html announcements, but I’m sure between ourselves and DreamHost this will be sorted out in the near future. We’ll also be expanding this feature in the next build to include adding new members to groups, etc.
• Easily view DNS and registration information on any of your domains. We’ll be adding system-wide reports into the next build, possibly also integrating this with PIMs like Outlook to add notifications into your calendar when domains are due to expire.
• We’ve already started working on adding a new tab to capitalize on the new MYSQL API functions, that’ll be coming in the next build as well…

How do you get it? Simply download DayDream for FREE by clicking here, then follow these steps…

Step 1 – Run the installer.

Step 2 – Once you have finished installing DayDream, click the “Finish” button to start dreaming and launch the software…

Step 3 – Enter your DreamHost login email address, as well as your DreamHost API Key. These can be obtained from DreamHost.

Step 4 – Download your DreamHost data. (You’ll need to do this from time to time in the future to keep DayDream up to date – just click on “Download DreamHost Data” from the “File” menu to do this…)

Step 5 – Your download progress can be viewed at the top of the screen. Wait until it’s done. Drink coffee if necessary.

Step 6 – Once your DreamHost data has been download, you’ll see a list of your domains on the left of the screen. Choose a domain, then click on a tab to do stuff. Groovy.

DayDream is currently on version 0.1. We’ll be adding lots of features over the coming weeks, so please feel free to contact us with your ideas.

Thanks for dreaming!