Dreamhost has lost their minds!!!
A couple of weeks ago I decided to shut down our web hosting division to focus on some more lucrative projects. For us being a small boutique company, it just wasn't worth keeping up with the support calls and infrastructure required to provide a top notch hosting service. So after plenty of research, I decided on using Dreamhost due to the plans they had, and my requirements for development. The single biggest feature they had was the ability to host MULTIPLE DOMAINS under one account. This is huge for someone with more than one domain name. Now I can host ALL of my sites for one low price. As if that wasn't enough, they include a FREE domain name registration for every account!!! So far I have been incredibly satisfied. More after the jump...
I thought I was getting a great deal a couple weeks ago, but Dreamhost just sent me a newsletter with some new "upgrades" that were made retroactive to ALL of their customers. To my great surprise, here are some of those enhancements:
• Custom DNS is now available for ALL customers
• The second thing they semi-mention in the newsletter is that they now support Secure SMTP for sending email through our servers.
• Next, they QUADRUPLED disk space on all the shared hosting plans! The disk space growth rate on all shared plans has also QUADRUED!
• Finally, they also OCTUPLED (eight times) bandwidth on all plans (including dedicated servers)! The bandwidth growth rate has also octupled.
These guys are absolutely INSANE! Not only are they offering more disk space and bandwidth than any other host out there, they increase it incrementally EVERY WEEK you stay on with them as a customer!!! To boot, they have an insane control panel making it very easy to manage all your accounts. So let me break things down for you...
This is what is included on their most BASIC and most inexpensive account (as low as $7.95 /mo.):
• 97-Day Money-Back Guarantee
• 24 hour Technical Support (E-Mail)
• Telephone Support (Phone Callbacks/mo)
• Web-Based Account Control Panel
• JabberTM Chat Server
• Disk Storage at signup - QUADRUPLED! 20GB Automatically Increases Weekly By: 160 MB
• Monthly Bandwidth - OCTUPLED! 1 TB Automatically Increases Weekly By: 8 GB
• MySQL Databases: Unlimited
• E-Mail Accounts (POP / IMAP) 600
• Shell / FTP / E-Mail Accounts 75
• E-Mail POP / SMTP Access
• IMAP Access
• Web-Based Email Access
• Procmail Mail Filtering
• Spam Filtering - SpamAssassin
• Email Addresses (Aliases): Unlimited
• Announcement Lists: Unlimited
• Discussion Lists: Unlimited
• Free Domain Registrations (A $9.95 Value!) 1
• Domains Hosted: UNLIMITED
• Subdomains Hosted: UNLIMITED
• Domains Forwarded/Mirrored Unlimited
• Custom DNS
• PHP4 Support
• PHP5 Support
• Full Unix Shell
• Crontab Access
• Full CGI Access
• Ruby On Rails
• Canned CGI Scripts
• Server Side Includes (SSI)
• CVS Repository
• SSL Secure Server (req. unique IP)
• Enhanced Web Security
• WebDAV
• Snapshot Data Backup
• Daily Access Statistics
• Access to raw log files
• Banner-Free DreamBook account
• Passworded Directories (.htaccess)
• FrontPage Extensions
• RealAudio and Video (http stream)
• Quicktime Streaming
• Anonymous FTP Server (req. unique IP)
So by now I think you can see that these guys have lost it. NOBODY offers this much at such a low price. I am still looking for the catch, but so far I haven't seen one. They also have a killer referral program that can pay as much as $97 per referral!!! I will fully disclose that we are taking advantage of that deal and if any of you decide to sign up with Dreamhost, please help us pay our bandwidth bill by clicking through one of our links to get to Dreamhost. We don't want you to think we are selling out here and providing mad props to Dreamhost for the money. If they suck, we'll be the first to let you know and switch our own sites to another host, but so far Dreamhost has been solid. Let us know if you decide to take advantage of that deal! Happy Hosting!
Comments
>if any of you decide to sign up with Dreamhost, please help us pay our bandwidth bill by clicking through one of our links to get to Dreamhost.
Why? DH is sooo cheap!
SCNR ;-)
Posted by: Marcus | January 5, 2006 6:55 AM
Well, that's because we'd like to upgrade to a dedicated server!!! :-) Hook a brotha up man!
Posted by: Frank | January 5, 2006 9:37 AM
You forgot to mention their limited CPU usage, which is what gets most people mad when they go over it. Dreamhost is great for small sites. Plain html site are fine, but sites running mysql is a little slow (such as joomla).
Anyone heard about how their dedicated servers...good/bad??
Posted by: Anonymous | January 24, 2006 11:40 AM
No probs running a Mambo site on Dreamhost so YMMV.
Posted by: Martin | February 4, 2006 9:12 PM