After I approve your request, I’ll need some information from you.

What You Send Me

1. Your real name.

2. The subdomain name you want.

3. A login name, plus a backup in case someone else has already gotten that name. I’ll let Dreamhost automagically pick the password for you, because you can get in and change them yourself once you’re set up.

Do remember that I can see all your information and passwords, so don’t use anything important. I’m not likely to steal your identity or hack into your email, but if someone manages to hack *me* … well, you can guess.

4. Do you want shell access? (If you don’t know that that is, you probably don’t.)

5. Do you want a MySQL database?

What I Send You

1. An FTP/shell access password, hooked to the username you gave me.

2. A MySQL database, if you request one, with the same username you gave me and a totally different password.

You will end up with two emails and two different passwords, but you can get in and change them. It may take a few hours for the DNS to propagate the subdomain to where you can see it, but it shouldn’t take more than a day unless DH goes down. You can check the status of Dreamhost machines at dreamhoststatus.com.