Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account

Here's how the Sagamore Hills PTA in its online efforts uses Dreamhost.

Services

Dreamhost does the following:

• Website hosting
• Domain registrar

Accounts

The PTA and its volunteers hold various accounts at Dreamhost.

Dreamhost Account

A Dreamhost Account is a collection of billing information and Dreamhost service plans. Multiple Dreamhost Users can be granted various privileges on the account, such as the ability to modify billing information and service plans or add/remove websites.

The PTA's account is, #1166210 "Sagamore Hills PTA", to which the following have some amount of access.

Vera Kornylak

Can do anything, established 2011-07

Dave Barker

Can do everything, established 2013-02

Dreamhost User

A Dreamhost user account, or Dreamhost Web ID (more), is needed to manage Dreamhost services (it allows you to "login to Dreamhost"). Each individual that needs to work at this level should have their own so they can be added and removed from the PTA's Dreamhost Account.

Server

Server accounts are on the actual machine hosting services (such as a website). Probably not needed unless ftp/ssh access is needed (see the Dreamhost documentation for FTP, SFTP, and shell). The same account can host multiple domains/websites (but multiple server accounts cannot manage the same domain/website), so we'll probably just have one.

We are on the server goatsbeard.dreamhost.com , with the following accounts:

• verkor for the 2011-2013 sagamorehillspta.org Wordpress site
• sagamorehillspta for the 2013-2014 test-wordpress.sagamorehillspta.org

Wordpress

See the Sagamore Hills PTA website page (an example of an Dreamhost application user).

Database

The single MySQL database account, sagamorehillspta, is used by the PTA's Wordpress site (an example of a Dreamhost MySQL user).

Log

The log account, sagamore, is used to view website-access statistics, such as those of the PTA's website (an example of a Dreamhost stats user).

Billing

Since the PTA is a nonprofit, there is no charge under Dreamhost's nonprofit discount (established mid 2013) for their "Happy Hosting" service.

History

1. 2014-08 Move account ownership to communications@sagamorehillspta.org from Vera Kornylak (done by Dave Barker, see the email thread for details)
2. 2011-07 Dreamhost use was initiated by Vera Kornylak.