DreamHost Review
DreamHost is one of the best shared web hosts, that founded in 1996 by Computer Science undergraduate students from California, their servers are located in Southern California. DreamHost has become one of the famous web hosting providers. According to recent surveys, they host around 700,000 domains.
DreamHost Hosting Plans
- Web Hosting, start at $10.95/mo monthly which decrease until $ 5.95/mo if paid 10 years in advance. It offers:
- unlimited disk storage
- unlimited monthly bandwidth
- unlimited mySQL databases
- Operating system: Debian Linux
- Unlimited e-mail accounts
- Unlimited domains hosted
- One-click automatic software installer, and more.
- VPS Hosting
DreamHost PS is a premium shared hosting service, available as a one-click add-on to the regular DreamHost shared hosting plan. DreamHost PS uses Linux-VServer to give “private server”, thereby protecting CPU and RAM from all other users for the ultimate in stability. Everything else stays the same: costumers get all the same features available from the same web panel, the same unlimited amounts of bandwidth and disk, the same load-balanced email, and the same home-grown support team.
- Dedicated Hosting
Client get all the features of shared hosting plan, plus all account upgrades, but on client own web server. This plan priced at $395 a month (payable monthly, no setup fee). Currently, this server would have an AMD Dual Core Opteron or an Intel Dual Processor Xeon and 4GB of DDR RAM.
DreamHost Other Features
- DreamHost provides three kind of support. The first is Dreamhost wiki which contains the solutions to many problems you may be having. The second is DreamHost forum where advance users might help you to solve your problem. Their interactive forum is very helpful to search information, guidelines and tips. The third way is contact support team via the support ticket system, as they do not offer phone support. They offer 24 hour technical support (e-mail).
- 97 day money back guarantee.
- DreamHost is not using readily available control panel like CPanel, instead they have their own control panel written in perl. Client can control any of the service by logging in to panel, and also can manage mail, mysql account and software from the panel.
- DreamHost offers one-click automatic software installer that can install many softwares like WordPress, Gallery, ZenCart, PhpGedView, Pligg, OpenX, phpBB, joomla, and many more.
