Anyone using Dreamhost should (or rather, must) know that the rewrite rules in each new CMS (Content Management System) installation (including Dreamhost’s own One-Click Installs) will break access to Dreamhost’s statistics package. And why should anyone care about the stats package that Dreamhost provides? After all, Dreamhost only provides Analog. But the Analog isn’t the important thing. The important part of the stats package is the CPU usage statistics provided by the stats package.

All shared hosting packages in Dreamhost come with 60 minutes of server CPU usage (at the time of writing of this post). Exceeding it will generally mean isolation into a special “containment” server, and maybe even account termination. Therefore, knowing how much server CPU usage you’re using is terribly important.

So, how do you restore the “broken” stats package? Simple: Click into The Relevant Page in the Dreamhost Wiki! After that, just follow the simple instructions of adding a few lines into your root .htaccess file. At least, that’s what was needed for this blog.