Dreamhost Web Hosting Review
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About the company
Dreamhost is proud to say that they are special– simply because the company is owned by its employee. They are a tight-knit family working together to serve its clients with utmost priority and to provide quality hosting at an affordable cost.
Dreamhost also offer one of the longest money back guarantee in the industry. They can give first time clients with a 97-money back guarantee. This only shows their commitment to customer satisfaction.
Why Dreamhost?
Dreamhost offers affordable solution for your entire web hosting needs. For their valued customers, they even offer optimum value! If you sign up for and prepay for 2 years, the set up fee will be waived and you will get a 20% off the normal price of any plan you choose. Set up fee is normally $49.95.
Technical and Customer Support
Dreamhost offers technical and customer support in three ways. You can use the contact form or ticket support at their website. You can also join the site’s discussion board for community support. You can search their very own support wiki to look for answers to your queries.
Plan Features
Each plan offers comes with a one year free registration and unlimited MySQL database. They also come with web-based account control panel and chat servers. It comes with unlimited email aliases, pop/smtp access, mail filtering and spam assassins.Each plan supports a number of programming environment including PHP4 and PHP5. It has full unix shell, crontab and full CGI access. It also has canned CGI scripts, server side includes and CVS repository included in each package.Dreamhost also have a number of advanced features like quicktime and http streaming, VPN access, anonymous FTP server, and ready to use scripts.
Plans and Pricing
Their cheapest plan, the Crazy Domain Insane plan is priced at only $7.95 a month (2-year pre-payment required, regular price of $9.95). It comes with 170.6 GB of web space with 1.706 TB of bandwidth. As a bonus, it has a weekly automatic increase of 1 GB of web space and 16 GB of bandwidth. It also has 3000 available email accounts with 75 shell/ FTP users.
The Sweet Dreams plan costs $15.95 a month (2-year pre-payment required, regular price $19.95). It comes with 255.9 GB of webspace with a 1.5 GB automatic increase every week. It has a bandwidth of 2.559 TB with a weekly automatic increase of 1.5GB. It can handle up to 6000 email accounts with 175 FTP users available.
At $15.95 per month (2-year pre-payment required, regular price $19.95), you can get the Code Monster plan, which is originally priced at $31.95. It comes with 341.6 GB of web space with an increase of 2GB every week. It has a bandwidth of 3.416 TB with a 32GB weekly automatic increase. It can accommodate 12,00 email account with 375 FTP users available.
For bigger e-commerce sites, you can get the Strictly Business Plan at only $63.95 per month (2-year pre-payment required, $79.95 regular price). It comes with 427 GB of web space with 2.5 GB automatic increase every week. It has a bandwidth of 4.265 TB with 40 GB automatic weekly increase. It comes with 24,000 available email accounts with 775 FTP users. As a bonus, you would also get a Miva Merchant software worth $695, one unique IP address and free SSL Secure Certificate.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
All my websites hosted on Dreamhost have been down for 4 days already. On their system status blog they say that severity is low, however, 200+ angry comments of website/online business owners whos sites are not working witness that it’s not so low. I’ve alrady lost 70% of pages from google index, and SE traffic is main traffic for my resources. Will have to spend another 2 month to make google index the pages again.