Hosting with Dreamhost

I don’t intend for this site to be full of promotional rubbish or adverts but I have to say a few positive words about my hosting provider Dreamhost.

Over the years I’ve used a number of different companies, usually at the lower end of the budget (which of course you’ll say is why I’ve had problems) and they have all had their faults - poor site performance, poor support, restrictive terms, price creep an so on.

So, in 2007 I decided to consolidate all of my sites onto one provider. I looked into private hosting but I couldn’t really justify the price and in many cases my databases and email would still be shared. So it was back to shared hosting.

After extensive searching I discovered that many people recommended Dreamhost and the benefits certainly seemed tempting:

For a start 500Gb of disk storage and 5 Terabytes of monthly bandwidth that increases by 40Gb a week. Then they add in unlimited domains hosted under one account, unlimited email addresses, unlimited mySQL databases and support for advanced features such as video streaming.

All from $5.95 per month and I’m not even getting close to their bandwidth limits at the moment.

Too good to be true you might say but using Dreamhost has allowed me to currently host 7 of my sites within one affordable account and the performance to date has been excellent.

Their support has also been exemplary. A recent example was when I contacted their support team on Dec 31 (New Years Eve) and they came back to me within 10 minutes with a solution to my problem.

Anyway, don’t just listen to me, take a look at them for yourself.