Dreamhost Web Hosting

Categories: Adult, Affordable, All, Best, Discount, Ecommerce, Linux, Shared, Unlimited Domain
URL: www.dreamhost.com

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Dreamhost Hosting Features
  • 500,000 MB Disk Storage (Increases by 2 GB every week!)
  • 5,000 GB Monthly Bandwidth (Increases by 40 GB every week!)
  • Unlimited Domains
  • Unlimited Sub Domains
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases
  • Unlimited Email Accounts (POP/IMAP)
  • Free Domain Name now with Free WHOIS Privacy
  • PHP 4/5 Support
  • Full CGI Support
  • Frontpage Extensions
  • Ruby On Rails
  • Unlimited Shell/FTP User Accounts
  • 97 Day Money Back Guarantee

Dreamhost Plan Pricing
  • Available Plans: 1
  • Monthly: $10.95 / month + $49.95 Setup Fee
  • Yearly: $9.95 / month | 9% Discount
  • 2 Yearly: $8.95 / month | 18% Discount
  • 3 Yearly: $7.95 / month | 27% Discount
  • 5 Yearly: $6.95 / month | 36% Discount
  • 10 Yearly: $5.95 / month | 45% Discount

  • Domain Registration: $9.95 year with free Whois Proxy
  • Unique IP's: $3.95 / month
  • SSL Certificates: $99.95 / year

Dreamhost Company Overview
Dreamhost was founded over 10 years ago in 1997 by a group of college buddies with nothing more than a T1 Line & a Pentium 100 (nickednamed Destro).

They all had one aim in mind: to provide a quality service at a reasonable price.

Dreamhost now hosts over half a million websites, has 1500+ servers & revolutionised the meaning of affordable web hosting.

Dreamhost Value (95 / 100)
Value should be Dreamhost's middle name. The value for money varies depending on how much of your hosting you want to pay upfront.

$9.95 / month will net you 500GB of Storage Space & 5TB of Bandwidth, more than enough for even the most demanding of websites.

Dreamhost Support (65 / 100)
Dreamhost support is very prompt (depending on how widespread the problem is) & they offer varying ways to keep track of current issues.

From a test of 10 Support tickets the average reply time was 17 minutes. The quickest response being 4 minutes 23 seconds & the longest being 8 hours 14 minutes.

Dreamhost Status gives up to date news that affects anyone on the network.

Dreamhost Uptime (80 / 100)

Apart from a few hardware failures which is common with shared web hosts Dreamhost has pretty consistent uptime.

The image to the right outlines any periods of downtime.

In 2007 Dreamhost achieved an overall uptime of 99.667%.

Dreamhost Speed (50 / 100)
Load Time: 0.8337 seconds
Page Size: 28.88 kb

Due to the amount of websites hosted on each shared Dreamhost server the speed of your website or MYSQL Server may be affected during periods of high load.

Dreamhost Final Say (73 / 100)
The overall package that Dreamhost provides is well rounded & affordable. There's a 90 Day Money Back Guarantee, so if you're not happy with your hosting then you can get a refund at any point.

However, whilst the huge bandwidth & disk space may be an initial selling point for the service 90% of users will rarely end up denting it.

Pros: Affordable, Easy User Interface, Manage Domain Registrations from the backend, Free Whois Privacy on Domains.

Cons: Slow MYSQL at times, CURL is disabled unless you install PHP yourself.


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