Web hosting provider DreamHost has recently given its customers the rather unusual advice of choosing Google’s Gmail over its own email service, telling them that “it’s something Google…can do better.”

Web hosting provider Dreamhost recently announced in its March company newsletter that it will stop providing mail-filtering tool Procmail to its users, leaving a few customers upset with the hosting provider’s decision to cut one of its services after offering it for years.

Web hosting provider Dreamhost experienced a billing error late Monday night, causing the company to unknowingly charge almost every one of its customers an extra year’s worth of service.

Last night, DreamHost ran a standard billing cycle to clean up stragglers from 2007. Unfortunately, the biller was run for 2008 (December 31st, 2008 to be exact). This caused everyone to be billed as if today was 2008-12-31, wreaking havoc, including debiting huge amounts of money from people’s checking accounts, suspending accounts for non-payments and [...]

Web hosting provider DreamHost Web Hosting has sent an email to its customer, the owner of Romanian site Zoso.ro, ordering that its high traffic sites block the Googlebot, reports Search Engine Journal, an act that would be potentially crippling to the online enterprise.